” IF THE LAST POOR GOAN suffering from mental disabilities matters to THIS  GOVERNMENT, well then now is the time to fulfill that assurance “

Tomorrow is the last Day of The Assembly session And I payer that our genuine demand of ” Health Department providing Psychiatrists to our shelter homes is raised, so as to get our Genuine demand met “.

Today we had a small & peaceful awareness program at Azad Maidan , Panjim , demanding that HEALTH Department deputes psychiatrists to visit our shelter Homes and provide care to our inmates who mostly are poor homeless Goans suffering from chronic mental disabilities. 

If you listen only for 15 min to what is explained in this link you will understand the severity of the issue but yet how simple it is to implement our demand.

Today we took along 10 of such ladies with mental disabilities for this awareness at Azad Maidan. 

Today we have about 172 + inmates & are shortly going to be caring for 240 + goan poor inmates suffering severe mental disabilities and most of these are genuinely poor goans recommended by IPHB to our shelter Home for care and rehabilitation.

Currently we have close to 32 poor goans awaiting admission into our homes in this coming month who are taking treatment at IPHB and we have assured them free rehabilitation once treated and stabilised.

It's going to be impossible to take all these 240 inmates regularly to IPHB for their monthly assessment and the most practical solution will be IPHB appointed Psychiatrist visits our homes.

We are THE ONLY FREE SHELTER HOME IN GOA for poor goan people suffering from mental disabilities & recommended by each and every DOCTOR @ IPHB as we provide practically free rehabilitation to our poorest of the poor goans of which 85 % practically can't afford any fees.

Yez we are partly funded both by Women & Child Department as well as Social Welfare Department but we need support of The Health Department who has to support our demand of Free Psychiatrists from IPHB.

We have 2 Physiotherapists supported partially by Social Welfare Department through a scheme who visit our homes daily – one for the North and one for the south.

But the need of the hour is PSYCHIATRISTS as of late to much physical disturbances are happening in all our women's homes as the severity of disabilities in women is difficult to handle as compared to men.

I am just scared if any untoward incident occurs in the women homes as we have highly chronic poor goan homeless women suffering from severe mental disabilities who either stay in our homes or will be back on the streets.

We should not be held responsible if something goes out of control in the near future especially in our women's Homes as this is the top most priorty for PSYCHIATRISTS from IPHB.

If The Health Department is not keen to accept our demand it will be very very painful for us as we will be literally forced to readmitt all these chronic poor goan women back into IPHB and then either IPHB discharges them to no where meaning they just walk out and reach the streets or IPHB sends them to PROVEDORIA which is not that easy as PROVEDORIA is always full.

We will be hitting the streets next week again with all our 60+ lady inmates and still if no assurance from The Health Department then we will march to either Chief Minister house or to The  Raj Bhavan.

We are providing a Service and we are not doing a favour to anyone neither is anyone doing us a favor but what grants or benefits are given from different Government authorities towards our NGO,  its the Tax payers money going TOWARDS THE LAST POOR GOAN suffering from MENTAL DISABILITIES. 

WE WORK HARD 

WE FIGHT LOUD

WE EXPECT OUR GENUINE DEMAND TO BE MET

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