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Europe cold snap hits At least 58 Europeans have died Temps plunged as low as -27 C
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Dozens of homeless people have died in an Eastern Europe cold snap, and some analysts blame a Soviet-era legacy of viewing the homeless as those who need to be punished instead of helped. At least 58 people have died overall in the past week, while hundreds have sought medical help for hypothermia and frostbite. Snow and ice have disrupted traffic, power and led to the closure of schools. Ukraine has been among the hardest-hit countries. As many as 30 people have died on its snow-covered streets, in hospitals and in their own homes in the past four days. Authorities said most of the victims were homeless. Ukrainian authorities have set up hundreds of heating centres across the country — large green or beige tents — in which the
homeless can get warm and are offered food, hot tea and coffee. Still, more than 540 people have been hospitalized with hypothermia and frostbite, Ukrainian health officials said. Hospitals were instructed to refrain from discharging homeless patients — even if treatment was finished — to save them from the cold, said Svitlana Tikhonenko, spokeswoman for the Health Ministry. Pavlo Rozenko, an expert on social policy with the Kyiv-based Razumkov Centre, said that Ukrainian authorities suffer from the Soviet legacy of viewing the homeless as alcoholics, drug addicts and do-nothings who need to be punished and locked away. “The country doesn’t know yet how to take care of its homeless,” Rozenko said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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