Senior citizens are assets of a country as they show right path for leading peaceful life to the next generation, viewed may o n the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons held here by the Association for the Social Serivce and Rehabilitation of the Aged (ASSRA) here on Sunday.
Members lamented that many cases have come to the fore where sons and daughter-in-laws are not taking care of their old parents and either sending them to the geriatric homes or leaving them behind on roadsides.
An ASSRA Team under guidance of social worker Sushant Sahu distributed clothes, fruits and sweets among senior citizens undergoing treatment at the IDH Ward in the Capital Hospital. Among others, social worker Bharat Chandra Sahoo, centurian blood donor Gopinath Patnaik, Priyabrat Panda, Shree Satyasaid Sevadal’s Subrat Kumar Rout, Rabindra Nath Sahoo and Narayan Pradhan talked to senior citizens and enquired about their health conditions.