Pune, November 22, 2025: Twelve elderly residents of Asak Vrudhashram Anathashram, a shelter home for the elderly, orphans, and mentally ill individuals, were shifted to a government-aided old age home on Thursday after authorities discovered the privately-run facility operating in unhygienic and unsafe conditions. Many of the residents required urgent medical care and had been living in makeshift huts at Ghorpadi for nearly a month following the shelter home’s vacating of its rented premises in Phursungi due to lack of funds.

Officials reported that the inmates were living without basic facilities or medical support, raising concerns about the functioning of the shelter and oversight by the agencies that referred patients there, including Sassoon General Hospital (SGH).

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