“This year we are going to exceed 1,500 places, because the main circumstances are seen during the day,” the Minister of Social Development, Martín Lema, told the press, referring to winter shelters in the country’s capital. And he pointed out that “455 slots” will be added for people with mental health problems and additions.
In cities in the department of Colonia, people sleep on the street, mainly drug addicts, mental patients and people with family conflicts. Reporting cases to the departmental Mides is an odyssey, and offers beds in Colonia del Sacramento or Carmelo in a poorly organized manner.
In the capital media every winter there is talk of the protection of the most helpless, and at least in the department of Colonia they seem to not exist.
