To curb crime in the State and provide all necessary help to women victims/survivors of domestic as well as other forms of violence, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has approved to set up “One Stop Crisis Centre” (OSCC) for Women at Badshah Khan Hospital, Faridabad and General Hospital, Gurgaon in the State. The Centre will remain open 24 hours with duty doctors and police personnel available round the clock.
OSCC would be a comprehensive service which will not only provide medical facility to the victims of domestic violence, sexual assault etc, but would also provide other support services such as legal aid, police services and counseling under one roof. Haryana Government has decided to spend about Rs 35 lakh on each OSCC.
OSCC includes a hotline managed by trained staff, a network of 22,000 crisis centres around the country and 1,300 mobile units to access communities nationwide there. The crisis centres receive complaints, transfer cases and coordinate responses between Government agencies.
“OSCC will be set up at Badshah Khan Hospital, Faridabad and General Hospital, Gurgaon. Besides these, one more centre is also proposed to be set up in General,Hospital, Sector-6, Panchkula,” said Dr Sumita Misra,Director General Womenand Child Development Department, Haryana.