Warsaw city guards received a report that a disabled man was staying in the park at the intersection of Kobielska and Podskarbińska, who had no way to get home because his wheelchair had disappeared. They helped and found the wheelchair – it was standing in front of the man's apartment door.
On Thursday after 3 p.m., city guards received a report from two social workers who had come to visit their 65-year-old ward in an apartment on Kobielska that day. He was not at home, but when they were walking by the Praga AK District Park, they noticed him sitting on a bench.
He didn't have his own cart.
The OPS employees offered to help him get back to his apartment. However, his wheelchair, which he had been using for several years, was not nearby. So they brought a replacement wheelchair, but asked the city guards to carry him up to the second floor.
“The man felt fine, he was sober. He didn't want us to call an ambulance. He said that even though he doesn't like it, he sits at home for hours because there is no elevator in his building, and he has a problem with his legs and his hip hurts, so taking a few steps hurts him. He added that he doesn't know where his wheelchair is,” said the officers who helped the man, quoted in the release.
He was standing in front of the apartment door.
He was taken in a police car to a tenement house on Kobielska Street. Since the building does not have an elevator, the city guards carried the man up the stairs to the second floor. They noticed a wheelchair in front of the entrance to the apartment.
“How he ended up there is unknown. The man was left in the care of social workers in his apartment,” the release added.