An 80-Year-Old Alzheimer’s Patient Went Missing In Delhi. Here’s How Twitterati Rescued Her

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An 80-Year-Old Alzheimer’s Patient Went Missing In Delhi. Here’s How Twitterati Rescued Her


An 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient who had to a temple in Patel Nagar on Sunday morning went missing after she forgot her address and failed to return home. However, she safely returned home in just about two hours thanks to some praiseworthy collaboration between the police and Twitterati. Here is how social media played its remarkable part: Deputy Commissioner of Police Madhur Verma tweeted the photo of the lady which was re-tweeted more than 100 times: Around the same time the woman's family members realised that Gupta hadn't returned from the temple and were getting worried. But before they could start their search, one of their relatives saw her picture in a post shared on Facebook by another user Vijay Jain. Jain had just shared the photo of the missing woman and Gupta's family members immediately contacted him over Facebook to inform him that they knew her. He quickly tweeted at the police official who also responded as quickly:



He thanked Vijay Jain for his swift action while also advising the old woman's family:

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