Carlos Luis Ocampo, 76, says that her children was kicked out of the house for three years. Now, he is one of the abandoned patients at the National Hospital of Geriatrics. | MAYELA LOPEZ
Carlos Luis Ocampo, age 76 occupies bed number 68 at the Hospital Nacional de Geriatría at a cost of ¢390,000 per day ($791) to the state. Ocampo was abandoned by his eight children, and after he was able to walk without assistance a truck driver brought him to the hospital.
According to Fernando Morales, director of the geriatrics hospital 6,000 elderly in 2013 were victims of abuse.