9-Jul-2013
VELLORE: A 70-year-old mentally and physically challenged woman, who was rescued from Melvisharam area in December 2012 by a local NGO, was reunited with her family in Jharkhand on Sunday.
After being rescued, the woman was examined by a local psychiatrist Dr Zubaida and was admitted to an Old Age Home run by an NGO at Murukkeri.
Later, some Hindi-speaking students helped identify her as Mobina from Mirpur, in Jharkhand, social worker Mazhar of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind helped locate the woman’s family and found the her husband 80-year-old Yasin Ansari living with his mentally ill son and four daughters at Mirpur village, deep in the jungles in Chatra district, near Ranchi.
A volunteer from Arcot, Sathish, accompanied the women by train to her village. When the woman was taken back to the village on Sunday, all the villagers gathered and received her. According to Ansari, his wife had vanished about 12 years ago. “The old man was in tears when he saw his wife. But, she did not recognise him,” Sathish said.
Mentally challenged woman reunited with family in Jharkand
A mentally disturbed woman in her seventies, found in Mel Visharam in Vellore district, was reunited with her family in Jharkand thanks to the efforts taken by Uthavum Ullangal, a Vellore-based service organisation.
According to V. Thara, a volunteer with Uthavum Ullangal, the woman was identified to be Mobina Kathun wife of Yasin Ansari from Mirpur in the Chatra district of Jharkand with the help of Hindi and Urdu speaking volunteers. “Jamaat-e-islami Hind helped us in locating the family,” she said.
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