Oberá’s abandoned citizens

Many people in Oberá and its surrounding area are extremely poor. Most vulnerable are those children and adults with intellectual or physical disabilities, or elderly people afflicted by isolation, depression or alcoholism. Families, ashamed of their handicapped or injured children (or adults), and at a loss as what to do with them, hide them away or abandon them.

This is a country where social welfare provision is almost nil. The local hospital, which must cater for a city and hinterland of 60,000 people, has just 120 beds.