A 70-year old man from Bursa, Turkey died last week, after spending
the last 47 years in the city hospital, not because he was seriously
ill, but because he didn’t have anywhere else to go.
Abdullah Kozan walked through the doors of Bursa State Hospital in
1968, just after completing his mandatory military service. He was
admitted with a severe headache, but soon asked the doctors if he could
stay there a while longer, because he really didn’t have anywhere else
to go. He got
along with the staff from
the beginning and claimed that he actually enjoyed living in the
hospital, so the administration kept registering him as a new patient
every time he got discharged at the end of his treatment.
Kozan looked at the world mostly through the window of his hospital
room, but he never seemed to mind. In return for the hospital’s
generosity in letting him stay there indefinitely, the ex-serviceman
would help the staff every time he could, mainly by moving stuff around
or delivering X-rays and documents where they were needed.
Oddity Central.
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