How Delhi Govt Plans to Deal with Drug Addiction Menace
In order to deal with the drug addiction menace in Delhi, the Department of Women and Child Development (WCD), Delhi Government, and leading NGOs, have launched a mobile health van offering deaddiction services on the go.
According to a government report released Friday, the service will primarily target city’s homeless and underprivileged people. Manish Sisodia, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister, inaugurated the van at Delhi Government’s Night Shelter at Yamuna Bazaar.
The launch was supported by WCD chief Shilpa Shinde, who acknowledged that drug addiction is a major problem in the city, with a rise in the city’s young abusers.
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The Yamuna Bazaar is located in the New Delhi district of Delhi near the Red Fort. It has a large community of slum dwellers and one the cities highest drug abusing populations, ranging from young children to aging adults.
Sisodia noted that the “biggest challenge of the homeless in this area, and the biggest inhibitor against their using night shelters, is the addiction and its own set of challenges that plagues this population.
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But the approach of the baton “danda” works no more; only the approach of love “gale se lagana” applies as the best approach. Thus, in order to meet the special challenges of this part of the city’s homeless addicts, the government in partnership with WCD and proactive local NGOs, launched a mobile health van, offering medical facilities especially catering to deaddiction.
Besides the van launch, Sisodia also informed that the government is running 260 night shelters in Delhi with a housing capacity for more than 20,000.
Photo courtesy: AAP
