Mental Health Task Force moots residential schools, rehabilitation centres

Mental Health Task Force moots residential schools, rehabilitation centres

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Jan 6,2013 : Dr KA Ashok Pai, Chairman of the Karnataka State Mental Health Task Force has said  that the Task Force has put forth proposals to  open  residential schools for mentally challenged children in every district headquarters, psycho social rehabilitation centres,  de-addiction centres and  rehabilitation centres for cerebral palsy patients.

Speaking to press persons in Mangalore on January 5, Saturday, he said  the  government has agreed to include all the four proposals of the Task Force in the coming budget and also to  provide land and building for the centres. Dr Pai said the  task of establishing and developing the centres will start once the funds are allocated for the purpose. Dr Pai said the de-addiction centres will come up at Gulbarga, Dakshina Kannada, Shimoga and  Bangalore.

Dr Pai, also a well-known psychiatrist,  further informed that the Task Force has already conducted mental health programmes at Shimoga, Bangalore, Bellary and Chamrajnagar districts. Such programmes, he said, would also be held in all district headquarters in the next phase. He also informed that the district units of Mental Health Task Force  would also be formed shortly.