Click to play videoMumbai: Two weeks since the Mumbai terror attacks victims are slowly recovering and they are getting help from two Israeli doctors. Both post-trauma specialists who've been to disaster sites like the World Trade Centre after 9/11. Aruna Ramesh reports.
14 year old Amit draws comfort from venting his feelings to his psychologist. His father died during the 26/11 terror strike in Mumbai falling to a bullet at Leopold Café.
It is these troubled emotions; the doctors from Israel seem to understand only too well. Doctors Rony and Marc from Israel's Nadal institute are teaching school children, at the Holy Name Cathedral School in South Mumbai, they are teaching them breathing techniques and how to express their feelings and heal.
But it's not just kinship with Rabbi Holzberg and his wife who died in the Nariman House shootout that has brought them here.
“These traumas need to be expressed now, children normally go out to play and bury them, else would lead to learning disorders, attention deficit, aggression,” says Psychologist, Dr Rony Berger.
According to Dr Mala Kripalani a city-based psychologist even adults are visiting trauma centers in hospitals complaining of fears that simply refuse to go away.
“They worry if their dear ones would return, people are scared to walk on the road” says Consultant Psychologist & Family Therapist, Dr Maya B Kripalani.
Though experts in the field say Mumbaikars can benefit from the infrastructure that's good enough to handle such cases of trauma, still there's scope to do more.
“There is much to do like training counselors and doctors on how to handle specifically trauma cases,” says psychologist, Dr Rony Berger.
The doctors’ contribution should help Mumbai as it begins to heal itself.
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