Awareness prog on mental health promotion held
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, March 29 2018:
Centre for development Activities Wangjing (CDAC), under the aegis of National Health Programme, Manipur organised an awareness programme on the theme "Mental Health Promotion", at CDAC Wangjing hall in Wangjing SK Leikai today.
Mental health programme Manipur Nodal Officer, Dr A Ranita Devi, District Hospital Chandel Psychiatrist Dr Kh Robindro Singh and social worker S Samananda attended the programme as resource persons.
Speaking at the event, Dr Ranita Devi said that people often consider psychiatric disorder or mental illness as incurable which is wrong while adding that the workshop aims to remove such stereotype and make the public aware that a person can attain a normal mental status if necessary medical needs are given to the individual.
Centre for Development Activities Wangjjng secretary motivated all to treat those people suffering from mental illness early and appealed them not to hide the affected people or sidetrack them from receiving proper medical needs.
Meanwhile, a free health camp was also organised as part of the awareness programme where a total of 100 people attended.