Austerity stretches Portuguese welfare system to breaking point
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The elderly woman in bed six is discharged from a crowded Lisbon hospital ward but cannot leave as she has nowhere to go. Her son and a social worker juggle with high costs and scarce places for three days before they can find her a place in an old people’s home.
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