The document describes the Gender Health Support Centre (GHSC) which was set up in Mukand Lal General Hospital Yamuna Nagar to help women victims of violence. The GHSC aims to provide comprehensive support services under one roof, including medical care, counseling, legal assistance, and temporary shelter. It seeks to make the process easier for survivors by addressing all their needs in one place, rather than having to travel between different agencies. The GHSC also aims to train hospital staff to better identify and assist women patients who may be facing domestic violence based on their health issues.

2. OBJECTIVES
 To create awareness about Domestic Violence as a
health care issue.
 To sensitise the staff to improve their response to
help woman victims who face violence.
 To create awareness about GHSC as a hospital
based project

3. WHAT IS GHSC?
 GHSC is a GENDER HEALTH SUPPORT Centre
set up in Mukand Lal General Hospital Yamuna
nagar.
 It is all out to assist the survivors or victims of crisis
to fight against any forms of violence such as
domestic violence, rape, sodomy, and child abuse.

4. WHY GHSC?
 Previously a survivor would need to go to the
hospital to be examined, then sent to the police
station to make a report, and then back to the
hospital if treatment is necessary.
 Those requiring counselling services would have to
go yet another agency. She would have to tell her
story over and over and over again.

5. CASES OF GHSC:
 Rape
 Sexual abuse
 Statutory rape
 Domestic violence (Gender-based violence, Violence
against women)
 Child abuse (mental, physical, negligence, sexual etc)
 Geriatric abuse
 Poisoning
 Acid attack

6. TYPES OF VIOLENCE
PHYSICAL ABUSE:
 holding or keeping her from leaving
 slapping or biting her
 kicking, choking, hitting, or punching her
 threatening or hurting her with a weapon
SEXUAL ABUSE:
 forcing a woman to strip when she does not want to
 forcing a woman to have unwanted sex with others or
forcing her to watch others having sex
 forcing sex after a beating
 forcing sex when she is sick or when it endangers her
health
 forcing sex for the purpose of hurting her with objects or
weapons.

7. VERBAL AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE
 Insult
 Name calling
 Accusations on your character or conduct etc
 Insult for not having male child
 Insult for not bringing dowry etc
 Yelling and screaming
 Preventing you or the child in your custody from attending
school, college or any other educational institution.
 Ignoring a woman’s feeling
 Continually criticising her, calling her names, shouting at her
 Humiliating her in public or privately
 Threat to commit suicide
ISOLATION:
 Stopping a woman from going to visit her relatives and friends
 Confining her to the house
 Stopping her from socialising with others

8. FINANCIAL ABUSE:
 Not providing you money for maintenance you or your
children
 Not providing food, clothes, medicines etc for you and
your children
 Stopping you from carrying on your employment,
disturbing you in carrying on your employment, not
allowing you to take up an employment or taking away
your income, salary, wages etc
 Not allowing you to use your salary
 Forcing you out of the house you live in
 Stopping you from accessing or using any part of the
house
 Not allowing use of clothes, articles or things of general
household use.
 Not paying rent if staying in a rented accommodation

9. GENDER HEALTH SUPPORT
CENTRE (GHSC)
GHSC is newly started in our hospital to help women
facing Domestic Violence. It is situated in Trauma
centre MLCH YNR.
 All the women coming to the hospital presenting
with different kinds of physical and psychological
complaints, many of these complaint could actually
be arising from domestic violence. She may either
come to the casualty or one of the outpatient
departments. If we are able to identify the victims of
violence during the brief or long interactions with her
we could be able to help her.

10. PHYSICAL Woman may come with complaints of
fractures, injuries, inflammation, abortion and MTP.
Besides they come up with rape, eve teasing, acid
burns, unsafe pregnancies, STD’s like HIV-AIDS,
low birth weight, prolapsed uterus, anaemia or
poisoning.
PSYCHOLOGICAL manifestation may be seen in
the form of depression, hysteria or more severe
illness like psychosis, post traumatic stress disorder
in which she seems to relieve the traumatic
experience and therefore temporarily looses clarity
of thoughts and presents with anxiety depression.

11.  An attitude change in the health care professional is
essential for helping the woman who faces
violence. Help can be offered to avoid further
escalation of violence. With a little sensitive talk
woman can be made aware of the help available at
GHSC.
 GHSC is creating support for women, so that they
can speak out. Speaking out is the first step to
question the violence in one’s life. So we have to
create an environment where woman will speak
out. GHSC provides social and psychological
support to women. We speak to woman find out
what the woman wants. It is important that we listen
to what she has to say, of not passing judgement
on her actions, of ensuring confidentiality , of
creating confidence in her about being able to
handle her own problems and her life and so on.

12.  The national crime bureau (NCRB) data shows that over
the past three years there has been an increase trend in
the crime against Women under Indian Penal Code as
well as Special Legislations (195856, 203804 and
213585 cases registered during 2008-09-10
respectively). According to NCRB data 2010, cruelty by
husband and other relatives accounted for 44 percent of
all forms of crimes against women. As per the National
Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) 2005-06 which covers
several dimensions of domestic violence, around 40
percent of women experienced emotional, physical, or
sexual violence.

13. “ GENDER HEALTH SUPPORT CENTRE” GHSC
is based on the concept of integrated and
coordinated team work of multi-sectoral and
support system make them ineffective and
inter-agency network at one place for the
rehabilitation of survivors of violence against
women, with public health system as the
focal point. The comprehensive services will be
an integrated approach from each related
department services within the hospital and other
support services in other sectors like Legal
services and Police departments.

14.  The Survivors and Victims of violence usually first
approach the health care providers for physical as
well as psychological trauma of violence.
 Also, it is found that a woman opens up to a doctor
more easily than to police personnel.
 GHSC will cater to comprehensive medical care,
counselling and emotional support, legal and court
activities, provision of temporary shelter and medical
reporting for women victims of domestic violence,
sexual assault etc.

15. THE GHSC SET UP
 The GHSC has been set up in public
medical hospitals. The victims can directly
approach the centre or the Centre can
receive the victims through referral from
Police station, NGOs or protection officers
appointed under Protection of Women from
domestic violence Act (PWDVA)

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