Hyderabad: Missing woman restored to family

Hyderabad: This incident illustrates the positive effect of love on mental health. More so. It shows the humanitarian side of GHMC officials whose intervention saw a destitute and mentally ill woman recuperate and undergo a transformative change to recall her family after a gap of 42 days.

This miraculous change was related by the GHMC in a release. It informed that its officials came across an enervated woman by roadside during a search for poor and destitute people during lockdown. The search was taken up at the behest of MAUD Minister K T Rama Rao.

On March 30, the GHMC staff led by Kukatpally Zonal Commissioner V Mamatha and Moosapet Circle Deputy Commissioner Prashanti came across a woman lying semi-conscious at a roadside. They were shifting the poor, beggars and others destitute to shelters to feed and accommodate them during the lockdown period. The GHMC personnel attended to her and made enquiries and learnt that she had been lying in that for two days. Thereupon, they shifted in a vehicle to Sivananda Rehabilitation Centre.

The woman was provided loving care and paid regular medical attention. Within 10 days, she recovered and started even taking part in the activities of the centre. After 42 days, she completely healed and remembered that her name was Mahbooba Bi and that her residence was near a Rama temple.

The officials took her along with them and went about localities in Kukatpally and Moosapet. Finally, while going through Kukatpally circle, she recognised her two sons near her house. Her sons informed that they searched for her and even made a complaint at Kukatpally PS. They immensely thanked the GHMC and the centre for caring for their mother and bringing her home.