E Singhbhum admin to rehabilitate kids of Cov victims, sets up helpline numbers

Jamshedpur: The East Singhbhum administration will rehabilitate the children who have lost their parents to Covid-19 infection and look after those whose parents are currently recovering from the infection at home or in a hospital.
Chanchal Kumari, the district child protection officer (DCPO), has urged citizens to report to the administration about such children through the state government’s toll-free numbers — 1098 and 181. “Besides the toll-free numbers, such matters can be reported over phone and through Whatsapp to 9304431077 and 7979725293,” Kumari added.
Till Friday evening, however, no such cases were reported through the numbers, Kumari said.
Pushpa Tirkey, the chairperson of District Child Welfare Committee (DCWC), said that children who lost their parents are being looked after by their guardians within the family. “That might be the reason we did not get such calls for help so far,” Tirkey added. Tirkey said children who need care and rehabilitation will be put up at the child care institutions in Patamda and Ghaghidih, where they will also be counseled.
“Children, whose parents have died or are fighting Covid-19 and there’s none to cook food or take care of them at home, must be under mental stress,” Tirkey said. CWC officials said that unless people are made aware of the rehabilitation scheme, the response to it would not be encouraging.