The Public Security Police (PSP) successfully found a 77-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease who had been missing for two days in Carnaxide, Lisbon.
In a statement released Tuesday, the Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the PSP announced that the elderly man’s wife reported his disappearance on August 27 at 8:57 p.m. at the Carnaxide station.
“From the very first moment, considering the age of the citizen and his condition of Alzheimer’s disease, all necessary resources were mobilized for his location,” the statement read.
Personnel from the Oeiras Police Division participated in the search operations, supported by drones and search and rescue dogs from the Special Police Unit.
“After two days of intensive searches,” officers succeeded in locating the man alive in the Quinta da Gandarela area of Carnaxide at 2:00 p.m. on August 29.
Rescue services were activated, and the victim was attended to on-site before being transported to São Francisco Xavier Hospital for medical observation.
The Lisbon Metropolitan Command of the PSP expressed gratitude for “the indispensable collaboration of the Oeiras Municipal Civil Protection Service, the Firefighter Corporations of the Oeiras Council involved, and the Oeiras Municipal Police, whose support was fundamental to the success of the operation.”
