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By Bindu Shajan Perappadan
NEW DELHI, MARCH 26. This might well go down in medico-legal history as an outstanding example of the humane face of the law. And helping in this endeavour is the Capital's good old Hindu Rao Hospital which is facilitating the rehabilitation of two boys who were arrested for raping a pregnant woman some years ago. Taking a detour from usual routine, the juvenile courts ordered the boys to be rehabilitated and "bonded'' back with society by "serving a term in a city hospital to understand and see first-hand human suffering and pain to develop empathy towards human grief". The gamble, so to say, paid off. And the two 19-year-olds today by their own volition are different people who now know their mind and can take independent decisions. They also admit to the doctors facilitating their rehabilitation, confessing that they had been "previously influenced and were in bad company". But this "term with a difference" wasn't so easy to come by, with the hospital staff understandably reluctant to accommodate the boys in their work area. "For them the boys were two people who were sentenced for rape. There were many doubts about how they would interact with the female patients and the hospital staff. We conducted several sensitisation classes for the doctors and the staff and told them how we should give these young boys a chance,'' says the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, Dr. Madhur Kudesya. The boys, who are in the hospital for a month-long rehabilitation programme since February 28, have been deputed in the Casualty section where a number of destitute patients are brought in each day. They will also spend time in the eye OPD where a large number of patients with faulty vision are brought in, and the orthopaedic department. "We held orientation classes for the boys and told them about their responsibility towards society and also made them aware about the "self". They have been very good workers, ever ready to help and open to learning. We have a de-briefing session each evening where the boys tell me what they did that day. One of them now wants to become a teacher, while the other is determined to make something of his life, which is a huge transition for them," says the Chief Medical Officer of the Hospital, Dr. B.D. Nayar, who has been taking care of the boys in the hospital. While the experiment is the first of its kind for the hospital, the staff here claim that they are ready to carry on with the business of touching lives. "The hospital today works under the World Health Organisation's directive to make health promotion one of its main agenda, which has now paved the way for integrating more than just patient care," says Dr. Kudesya.
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