NEW DELHI 29 Apr (ANA) - Thousands of British citizens, many of them elderly, are still stuck in India a month after the country went in to lockdown, the Foreign Office has admitted.

Some have been running out of medicine or have been scared to go outside amid reports of violence against foreigners.

Relatives and MPs have called for more urgency in getting people home, asking for more flights to be organised.

British authorities said they were working hard to get people back.

'It's disgraceful'

Pamela Sharma, 49, from London, left for the Punjab at the end of January with her parents.

They were due to come home on the same day flights out of the country were stopped. They have not been offered a place on a repatriation flight despite registering and paying.

Miss Sharma has colitis and needs to use a colostomy bag. Both her parents are in their 80s and have blood pressure issues.

She believes these conditions have been made worse by the increasingly hot weather and lack of air conditioning at the holiday home they have been living in.

"I know we're not in a hotel or running out of food but my life and home are back in the UK," she said.

"And if anything were to go wrong, I don't want my parents to have to go to a hospital here. 

"We've all worked all our lives and paid taxes, I think the government just needs to pull its finger out and get us home."(ANA)

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