PANAJI: Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (Goa SCPCR) had a joint meeting with stakeholders on Friday at Conference Hall, Secretariat on ‘Protocols of Medico Legal Care for POCSO Victims’.
The meeting, chaired by Goa SCPCR Chairperson Peter Borges, focused on identifying gaps in current practices which need to be plugged through feedback received from various stakeholders and further improvements can be affected in them.
The meeting was attended by Members of GSCPCR, Superintendent of Police, Women and Child, Directors of Prosecution, Pediatrics, Forensic Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Forensic Science Laboratory, Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, Hospicio, Child Welfare Committees (North Goa and South Goa), Victim Assistance Units and other stakeholders.
The Chairperson while addressing highlighted the dual role that all health providers have to play to respond to sexual violence, i.e. providing therapeutic care to survivors.
