24-Apr-2014 VELLORE : Three mentally ill persons from Odisha and West Bengal, who were receiving care and treatment from the government- supported Home for Psycho-Social Rehabilitation of Mentally Ill Persons at Tirupattur were reunited with their family members recently. According to C Ramesh, joint secretary of the Home, Surendar Das (60) was rescued from Azhinjikuppam village near Ambur while Susantho Swain (29) was rescued from Tirupattur and Thoppun Mandal (25) was rescued from Pochampalli area. They were found wandering and police rescued and handed them over to the Home. The three were receiving regular treatment from a team of doctors from the Department of Psychiatry from CMC hospital in Vellore. The treatment, care and the ambience helped them recover from their illness as they began to come out with details about their family members. The Home managers verified the information and finally traced their families. Bengali Swain, wife of Susantho, who had come to Tirupattur along with two of her relatives, recalled that Susantho, a cloth vendor and a native of Siyaliya village in Ganjam district in Odisha and father of two girls, went missing two years ago. Even though they had launched a hunt to trace him, they had almost lost hope of seeing him again when they received a telephone call from the Tirupattur Home. She was glad to take her husband back home. Surendar Das, who also hails from the same district, used to be a farmhand and went missing two years ago. His mother Gauthagi and brother Abhidas could not come to Tirupattur to take him. But Swain family took the responsibility to take Surendar with them to his family. Thoppun Mandal, a native of Rasui village in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, used to be a construction worker. His father Ginaram Mandal who had come to take his son at Tirupattur said that searches were made in several places but in vein. All the three received medical advice by CMC doctors before they left, Ramesh said.
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