Relatives of a 68-year-old Honduran immigrant who disappeared a few days after arriving in New York, walked Thursday through several streets of Manhattan putting up posters with her photo and basic information, hoping someone had seen her and could provide information. from where you are.
Margarita Bernadez Palacios, who suffers from dementia and other mental disorders, was last seen on June 7, by staff at an East Harlem shelter, where she had been taken for an evaluation.
According to information obtained by her family, the woman was being transported from one shelter to another when the vehicle she was in had a breakdown and then she was put on the subway with a “metro card” and was ordered to return alone to the shelter where she had been , according to his family, he does not speak English, he has no knowledge of the city, nor a way to communicate by phone.
Bernadez Palacios also lacks the medicines that he must take daily. For these reasons, her relatives question why the shelter staff would have put her in that situation.
Her daughter-in-law spoke to us without showing her face because of her immigration status, she told us.
The relatives say that the police and all the hospitals in the city have been alerted about this disappearance and have his photo and necessary information.
The familaires say that they will continue walking the streets until they find her and ask anyone who can see her anywhere in the city to contact them at the telephone number 914-434-0355.
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