Updated On: 18 November, 2012 09:50 AM IST | | Correspondent
This city of dreams can turn into a nightmare for the homeless destitute who don't get a second glance from busy passersby. PHORUM DALAL meets those who keep an eye out for the homeless ill persons and have formed a support lattice to ensure they live and die with dignity, and not alone on the streets
Reunion with family of Chennai patient successful. Response : excellent.’ Psychiatrist Bharat Vatwani, founder and trustee of Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation just received this SMS when we meet him at the Borivli centre on Thursday. “This is what we do. The mentally-ill destitute you see on the roads, is not always just a drug addict or a beggar. They are ‘the wandering ill’ who might die if they don’t receive our help,” says Vatwani, who runs two homes — in Borivli and Karjat — that house and treat the destitute from the streets and help them reunite with their families.
