A research on One Cease Disaster Centres, mandated to offer assist and providers to girls and youngsters who’ve skilled violence has identified a number of lapses together with the absence of entry to disabled. The research was completed by Sruti Incapacity Rights Centre.
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A research on One Cease Disaster Centres (OSCC), mandated to offer assist and providers to girls and youngsters who’ve skilled violence has identified a number of lapses together with the absence of entry to particular person disabled. The research was completed by Sruti Incapacity Rights Centre on the premise of visits to 10 OSCC throughout 4 states together with West Bengal.
“Not all OSCC are situated throughout the Hospital. For instance OSCC in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh is close to a outstanding political celebration. Some facilities work from 9 am to five pm although they’re supported to present 24 hours service. Not a single centre has correctly skilled workers like psychologists or authorized specialists,” a press assertion by Sruti Incapacity Rights Centre mentioned.
Talking on the launch of the report Shampa Sengupta founding father of Sruti Incapacity Rights Centre mentioned that the activists visited two OSCC in West Bengal, one in South 24 Parganas and one other in North 24 Parganas and each have been non practical.
“Because the OSCC doesn’t exist, how can we ask them whether or not they’re disabled pleasant or not,” Ms. Sengupta mentioned. Observing that the OSCC don’t perform correctly within the State, Ms. Sengupta mentioned that this ignorance is available in having such centres comes at a time when the talk is raging over the rape and homicide of a physician at R G Kar School and Hospital.
The research was completed on the OSCC in Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Whereas the OSCC within the three different states began in 2017 in West Bengal the primary OSCC got here up in 2022. The report was launched on December 3, which is noticed as Worldwide Day of Individuals with Incapacity.
Ms. Sengupta additionally a incapacity rights activist mentioned that the OSCC at Bijoygarh State Common Hospital which is itself defunct and the centre had a knowledge entry operator when the activists had approached the Centre.
Jhuma Sen, a lawyer at Calcutta Excessive Court docket mentioned that OSCC was a profitable mannequin which was appreciated not solely within the nation however globally. Ms. Sengupta mentioned that home violence is a matter of public well being and the OSCC was added after the advice of the Usha Mehra Committee. She mentioned that when the primary OSCC got here up at a Mumbai hospital it grew to become a hit.
Revealed – December 04, 2024 09:53 am IST
