Collector P. Kumaravel Pandian inaugurated a child-friendly unit at the Government Medical College Hospital in Vellore established to help survivors in Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act cases recover from trauma.
Health officials said the specially designed unit, which is equipped with six beds, features cartoons and pictographs on walls, and provides play equipment and children books. The unit will be monitored round the clock by five doctors on a rotational basis. The unit has been set up in the existing special ward where the survivors are treated and given counselling by health experts.
The survivors will stay in the unit until they completely recover from the trauma. Earlier, such survivors were allowed to stay in the counselling ward. However, the new unit would help them to heal from the past, health officials said.
