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Volume 4 Issue 16 - August 15, 2006
Victim of ignorance; mentally ill chained at home for years
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– When it comes to mental illness, majority of the people in
It has been found
that due to ignorance, quackery and superstition in rural areas of
Singh had been
chained for years. On August 2, he was rescued from a fodder store in his
house. After four days of treatment at
The Red Cross is providing for the treatment of 13 such people who were rescued by the district administration. “These patients have responded well to treatment and counselling. Not only occultism but quackery and wrong treatment are also responsible for such inhuman treatment,” Gurdial Singh, Secretary, Red Cross, Faridkot was quoted as saying.
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