Vasai woman found living with dead sister's body for 3 days, to be given psychiatric treatment
Vasai woman who lived with her dead sister for 3 days to be treated
The 45-year-old Vasai resident Sangeeta Iyer, who was found living with the body of her dead sister for three days, will be taken for psychiatric treatment and the house given for rent to pay for the medical bills.
dna on Friday had reported that a resident of Pushpanjali Apartment in Vasai had approached the Manickpur police informing them about the death of her younger sister Lalita, 42. The police concluded that Lalita had died at least three days before her sister reported it. A year back, the mother of the two sisters also had died and the two sisters are believed to have sat with the body in the house for five days.
The mother and the younger daughter died due to starvation. The survivor Sangeeta too was found to be incapable of looking after herself. The family had cut itself off from the outside world.
"Sangeeta was all right until two years ago. After her husband residing in Assam disowned her, she has been staying in this house. Other family members too have disowned this family," said a neighbour.
"Our Bhakta Samaj will decide on treating Sangeeta for mental illness, while the flat will be given on rent. A meeting has been called to decide on the course of action," said Radha Iyer, a social worker from Vasai.
The Iyer family's decline into solitude, illness, psychiatric problems, poverty and, finally, a painfully slow death is indicative of how many families slip into the abyss of depression with no social cover and family support available in these times of stressful urban life and the sheer struggle to survive.