All 5 Uses of
indigent
in
Strength in What Remains
- And there was the loneliness he'd often felt in New York, the loneliness of feeling that only he understood the plight of the indigent sick back where he came from, the loneliness of feeling that he understood something vital that no one else around him could fully understand.†
Chpt 2.10
- To Joia, the problem wasn't that Deo got upset at the way patents on drugs, for instance, left the indigent sick of black Africa bereft of modern medicine.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- Detention of indigent patients — imprisonment, really — wasn't exactly the fault of the new Hutu-led government.†
Chpt 2.16
- From his summer working for Partners In Health in rural Rwanda, among the indigent sick, Deo had seen the country's poverty firsthand and had heard the murmuring hatreds that might be only temporarily suppressed.†
Chpt 2.18
- He imagined the spread of this enterprise, of a close alliance with the Ministry of Health, of an expansion to the large, underfunded district hospitals where someday indigent patients would no longer be detained.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
so poor as to lack basic necessities like food and shelter; or people in that condition