Healthy society
Recently Minister for Health and Medical Education, Social Welfare and Education, Children are future of our nation, their mental well-being crucial for shaping positive, healthy society.
Addressing the gathering, Secretary Health and Medical Education, Dr. Syed Abid Rasheed said that the purpose and intent of this conference is very big as we are writing the future of our children affected by mental health issues. He added that all the departments need to work in tandem in order to deal with such issues.
He called upon the organisers to create awareness about mental health issues across the length and breadth of J&K and involve the necessary stakeholders in it so that children are made resilient about the failures from the early age.
He highlighted that the deliberations of this conference should turn into some actionable points, so that our department can put in the required policy interventions to deal with this critical issue.
Addressing the gathering, Head CGWC- IMHANS, Dr. Zaid Wani gave a detailed presentation on operations of the centre. He outlined about the awareness programmes organised by the IMHANS to deal with this pressing issue.
Pertinently, the daylong conference features series of panel discussions and presentations on various topics like community rehabilitation of substance related disorders, integrating child mental health in education system and other curricula, building community based mental health support network as well as POCSO and Child mental health.
