Ms Pavithra Raghava, a faculty at IPH facilitated a session on ‘National Mental Health Program’ on 30th of January 2012 for the Block Program Mangers
The session initially focused on facilitating an understanding of the concept of mental health and mental illness. Causes, symptoms, disease burden and treatment related to the illness were elaborated with the aim of demystifying many misconceptions related to persons suffering with mental illness. The next half of the session concentrated on the National Mental Health Program, activities under it, available services and progress till now was discussed. Proactive role that BPM could take on under the program was then debated.
