English Dictionary

homeless dumping

名詞

慣用表現 不可算名詞

(idiomatic) The practice of hospital employees or emergency workers releasing homeless patients on the streets instead of placing them into the custody of a relative or shelter or retaining them in a hospital where they may require expensive medical care.

日本語の意味

病院の職員や救急隊員が、ホームレスの患者を家族やシェルターなど適切な保護体制に移送せず、医療費の負担を避けるために路上に放置する行為

Advocates filed a complaint after witnessing what they called homeless dumping when the hospital discharged several mentally ill patients onto the street without arranging care.

支援団体は、病院が複数の精神疾患を抱える患者を保護先やケアの手配をせず路上に放り出したのを目撃し、これを「ホームレスの患者を路上に放り出す行為」だとして告発状を提出した。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) The practice of hospital employees or emergency workers releasing homeless patients on the streets instead of placing them into the custody of a relative or shelter or retaining them in a hospital where they may require expensive medical care.

A hospital van dropped off a homeless paraplegic man on Skid Row and left him crawling in the street with nothing more than a soiled gown and a broken colostomy bag.... Police said the incident was a case of homeless dumping and were questioning officials from the hospital.