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Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) - In order to improve the situation of drug addicts in Frankfurt and to prevent an increase in corona infections in the station district, the city has launched an emergency plan.
These include better medical care, more emergency sleeping places and open consumption rooms around the clock, as health department head Stefan Majer (Greens) and social department head Daniela Birkenfeld (CDU) announced on Thursday.
The plan is to take effect at the beginning of 2021 and initially apply for half a year.
According to the information, there are currently between 100 and 200 homeless drug addicts living in the Bahnhofsviertel, many of them without any right to social benefits.
Many of them are not insured and have serious mental and physical illnesses.
To help them, according to the plan, an additional humanitarian consultation is to start in the drug emergency service Elbestraße.
In addition, addicts without health insurance could be admitted there for the first time for substitution treatment.
A psychiatric consultation hour twice a week is also new.
Furthermore, an emergency fund will be set up to accommodate homeless drug addicts.
There should be special trash cans for used syringes for greater hygiene.
There was initially no information about the total cost of the package.