Missing Kranskop woman with schizophrenia found by family in Durban CBD
There is huge relief for a KwaZulu-Natal family who have been reunited with their missing sister diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Brother, Carlito Sheik, along with his siblings, searched Durban for their missing sister, Melissa Thulkanam.
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On Friday afternoon, their search has come to a happy end when they found her.
"Across KZN we travelled 797 km, I can't tell you what was done on foot," he said.
Thirty-eight-year-old Melissa Thulkanam was admitted to a rehabilitation centre in Kranskop in October.
Her brother, Carlito Sheik says as part of the therapy the family was not allowed to communicate with her three weeks.
He says he phoned the facility two weeks ago on his sister's birthday, but was told she had been discharged a month earlier.
A woman who had seen Thulkanan in the Durban CBD heard a news report about her on Thursday and came forward with information.
Sheik says he and his siblings made their way to Durban Central today and with the help of a group of homeless people, they tracked her down to Maud Mfusi Street.
Sheik described the moments of finding his sister.
"She walked straight into my arms, literally straight into my arms. As I took the corner, around a taxi, right in front of me was my sister walking barefoot as ragged as hell but straight into my arms," he says.
