A revealing TV report made by the Portuguese television sender TVI, it was broadcast on January 11th 2011. The documentary of about half an hour shows the inhumanitarian situation of the pensions in Lisbon which shelter the evacuated patients from Cape Verde and also other ex-Portuguese colonies like Guiné Bissau and São Tomé & Principe.

The social issues at hand are very complex but the human tragedy caused by it are unacceptable! The report makes mention of many patients only arriving in Portugal to die in misery…

The TV report can be seen via this link

«Viagem Sem Regresso» (A Journey without Return)