Home alert programme saves over 22,000 lives in Hungary

A home alert programme for the elderly has saved more than 22,000 lives since its launch, Zsolt Nyitrai, an advisor to the prime minister, said on social media on Saturday.

Home alert programme saves lives

Help has been sent to the homes of Hungarians with the wristband alert devices (Gondosóra) on 360,000 occasions, Nyritrai said. The oldest user of the state-supported system is a 107-year-old woman, he added.

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