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Maria Devlin, President and CEO FIT-NH, emceed a brief ceremony remembering the homeless who died in 2020./Pat Grossmith Photo
MANCHESTER, NH – Last year, nearly 1,400 people experienced homelessness on any given day in New Hampshire, according to the Continuum Care to the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development.
Sixty of them died, not necessarily on the street as in the case of Gary Silver, 64, who died Nov. 30 after a propane tank exploded in his tent in the woods off Willow Street.
Still, 27 of those 60 people were individuals residing in Manchester, all with no permanent homes at the time of their deaths.
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Heidi Kukla, 57, a registered nurse in the Elliot Hospital intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients, seated at left, was the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Bronwyn Gallant, also a registered nurse at the Elliot, at right, administered the vaccination Tuesday outside the main entrance to the Manchester hospital./Pat Grossmith photo
MANCHESTER, NH – Heidi Kukla, a registered nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at the Elliot Hospital, on Tuesday became the first person in New Hampshire to receive the Phizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
Kukla, 57, volunteered to be first because she wants people to know it is “better than dying alone on a ventilator in an ICU.”