After rescuing and treating about 3,000 mentally-ill women through the “Mission Ashra” centre, the People’s Forum has now decided to open another such centre named “Mission Ashaloka’ to rescue and treat males having mental disorders.
The “Mission Ashaloka” would be opened in a rented house at Bhatakhuri, Gangapada, along the National Highway at 11 am on August 17 (Saturday). Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability Ashok Chandra Panda would open the centre in the presence of Jatni MLA Suresh Kumar
Routray and noted doctors, informed forum secretary Gobinda Chandra Patnaik on Wednesday.
Before launching of the centre, the People’s Forum would undertake a drive to rescue men mental disorder patients moving on the road from Bhubaneswar to Puri from August 14 to August 16, he informed.
On Wednesday, the volunteers of the forum rescued as many as 26 male mental disorder patients from different parts of the city.
Assistant Commissioner of Police BB Sethi and social workers Sanjay Patnaik, Prakash Rath, Nishith Ranjan Nanda, Sukant Samal, Nagesh Sunkari joined the drive, informed Patnaik.