I am frustrated, disappointed and fed up of the lethargy of The Government of Goa towards homeless goans on the streets and in particular ladies on the streets, but an all ladies Government dept ie WOMEN & CHILD DEPARTMENT is in hibernation mode.

This post is of a poor goan homeless lady sleeping on the MAIN street of Mapusa last 3 -4 months in the rain, dust , heat , mess and no one took note of her and got her off the streets ie at the turning of HANUMAN NATYAGRAHA Mapusa just next to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Statue.

MLA , Councillors , Police , 112 , 181 , social activists, general public and me also , all sleeping

Dr Susheel Neogi sent me her pictures on the 11th Sept but being the 5th day of immersions we took her off the streets yesterday ie 12th Sept after he requested to get the lady off the streets as it to painful to see such a goan lady living in horrible & pathetic inhumane condition.

Activist Mrs Ashiwarya Salgaonkar just two days before told me there was a lady on the streets but did not send me pictures.

WOMEN & CHILD DEPARTMENT is not bothered about such ladies on the streets even though most of the employees are WOMEN.

Let me explain the system which has many flaws and my frustration.

Okay 

PINK FORCE police will pick her and may be 

She may stay in a hospital or run away and get back to the same place.

If PINK FORCE has to admit into IPHB , they require a MAGISTRATE ORDER which is 12 hours process as there are 4 different paperwork to complete.

Let's say PINK FORCE got the MAGISTRATE Order & put this lady into IPHB then what?

This is the FRUSTRATION .

IPHB will treat max 7 to 15 days and stabilise, try to discharge, then call PINK FORCE saying patient is to be discharged.

Now PINK FORCE of Goa Police runs no shelter homes in Goa neither has THE GOVERNMENT OF GOA notified any shelter homes in the Gazette to the Goa Police to admitt such homeless people once discharged from Hospitals, as they need care and recovery place.

So max Police will go to IPHB & discharge and if they get a home to admitt they will admitt but till date I am sure it's just not happening.

Let's say IPHB does not discharge such patients brought through the Goa Police with the Magistrate Order who are homeless, as they have no place to go then IPHB beds will be occupied and new admissions will not happen.

That's why in IPHB which is a 190 bed institute as on 18.7.24 , there were 64 patients housed permanently or on a long term basis making new admissions and deserving patients not get treatment.

I am not saying this without proof.

This link is the proof which was discussed in the just concluded Goa assembly and I did not hear the minister denying that 64 beds are occupied as the Government has no homes to put them .

So the homeless person is set free and goes back to the same place and the same routine continues.

Now if PINK FORCE takes to ONE STOP CENTRE they can't admitt as this lady is psychiatric so again where to put such ladies ?

Let say ONE STOP CENTRE admitts a homeless lady thru the police, the stay is only 5 to 7 days after that start walking to no where.

Yesterday INSPECTOR @ Goa Police, Mapusa police station, Mr Nikhil was kind enough to respond to our request to get this lady of the streets & sent his staff.

He too admitted and many police personnel from Mapusa police station admitted that the saw and are seeing the lady for months yet they did nothing.

It took about 2 full hours to organise man power.

There is no HOMELESS POLICY in GOA by the government and that's why one finds dead bodies on beaches, headless bodies floating, unknown dead on the streets, murders on the streets, etc.

The most disappointing part is the minister of  WCD & HEALTH is one and the same minister & the Secretary for WCD & HEALTH is the same IAS officer but still the poor homeless psychiatric people especially ladies and that too goans are living and dying on the streets and everybody eyes are closed.

Hon PM keeps announcing many Welfare schemes for the poor & marginalized but in GOA its not visible in the SECTOR of homeless street people especially goan ladies suffering from mental disabilities. 

Such a small state and it could be a model to have absolutely no beggars, no vagabonds , no homeless with mental disabilities on the streets.

I wonder how do the :

Without Government funding which is always promised and not released its next to impossible to daily respond to requests from all over Goa to pick and rehabilitate homeless especially goan woman.

We are unsure to continue these shelter homes for men & women as :

We are hitting the streets very soon to highlight the delay of grants as promised and sanctioned but not released.

This lady who we picked up is suffering SEVERE  SCHIZOPHRENIA and will also be suffering from either TB or may be Pancratic health issues.

It's not easy caring for patients with mental disabilities coupled with TB.

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