Train in counselling, medical professionals told

12-Feb-2013

Principal of HKE Society’s Homeopathy College P Sampathrao speaking at the inauguration of the 7-day orientation and teaching programme in Gulbarga City on Monday.

GULBARGA : P. Sampath Rao, principal of HKE Society’s Homoeopathic College, has stressed the need for medical professionals to be trained in counselling. He said that this would help improve the quality of treatment.

He was presiding over the inauguration of a seven-day orientation and teaching programme in psychology for students.

The orientation was organised by the Directorate for Distance Education at Kuvempu University, the Manasa Educational Foundation for Mental Health and the Jalihal Gowramma Sanganabasayya Hiremath Pratishtan here on Monday.

“The mind is the epicentre of all diseases. If the right treatment is provided to the mind through counselling, most diseases can be controlled and treated effectively,” he said. Dr. Rao called education ‘a continuous process’. Age has nothing to do with the drive to acquire knowledge, he said.

Psychiatrist R. Venkatreddy, who was honoured along with senior mental health specialist N.G. Ghanate, said that counselling had become an integral part of society. The role of counsellors was getting more specific and imperative.

Today’s youth is pressured to perform or perish, particularly those working in the IT sector.

“Counsellors have a wide range of employment opportunities,” the psychiatrist said, adding that industries in many sectors now insisted on hiring counsellors to treat their employees.

Convener of the Manasa Research Centre here S.S. Hiremath welcomed.

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Psychiatrist says Mane was suffering from mental illness

13-Feb-2013

PUNE: Rogue bus driver Santosh Mane was suffering from mental illness called mania when he was examined in 2010-11, Solapur-based psychiatrist Vilas Burte told the district and sessions court here on Tuesday.

On January 25, 2012, Mane had hijacked a state transport bus from the Swargate stand and had driven it around the city on a manic spree, leaving nine people dead and 31 injured.

Burte, defence witness number one, was deposing before the additional sessions judge V K Shewale. Burte holds a diploma and a master’s degree in psychological medicine. He has been practising as a psychiatrist since 1977.

When examined by senior lawyer Dhananjay Mane, Burte deposed that he had met driver Mane and his brother for the first time at his clinic in Solapur on February 19, 2010.

According to Burte, Mane’s brother had told him that he was suffering from disturbed sleep, palpitation, etc. He was not having proper meals, suicidal ideas were coming to his mind and he was looking sad. He was also suffering from ringing in the ears.

Burte said that Mane’s brother had informed him that his family did not have any history of psychiatric illness. Mane had a history of tobacco chewing and occasional consumption of alcohol.

Mane’s psychological examination revealed that he was non-cooperative, restless, irritable, elated and talkative, Burte said. He, however, added that no hallucination or delusions of persecution were present. According to the psychiatrist, Mane’s orientation of memory and intelligence was not impaired. His insight was poor. Mane was diagnosed with mania (mental illness) and he was given prescription for medicines.

Burte also gave details of providing electro convulsive therapy (ECT) to Mane. He was under psychiatric treatment during February 19, 2010 to November 3, 2011. He produced copies of his medical history and register before the court.

The witness said that the Pune police had recorded his statement, but he could not recollect the date. He added that the police had collected documents of Mane’s medical history on January 25, 2012 night.

The defence counsel, assisted by Pune-based lawyer Hrishikesh Ganu, examined Shivanand Shete, medical shop owner in Solapur, as defence witness number two. Shete gave details of the medicines purchased by Mane in 2010-11.

Public prosecutor Ujjwala Pawar sought time for cross-examining the witnesses on March 1.

Prosecution challenges genuineness of documents

Public prosecutor Ujjwala Pawar on Tuesday challenged the genuineness of medical documents of driver Santosh Mane, when the court was recording the evidence of psychiatrist Vilas Burte. Pawar told the court that she was challenging the documents as it is not part of the evidence in the case. Additional sessions judge V K Shewale told her that she cannot challenge the documents when it has not been produced before him, but he kept her objections open while recording the evidence. The judge later exhibited the documents filed by the defence.

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Agro project launched to support mentally ill

June 16, 2012

Keshav Desiraju, Special Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi and Sujaya Krishnan, Joint Secretary,
interacting with mentally ill persons at the bakery unit of M. S. Chellamuthu Trust at Alagarkoil near Madurai on Friday

M. S. Chellamuthu Trust’s initiative on one-acre land at Alagarkoil

MADURAI : In an initiative to support the families of mentally ill persons, an agro project was launched on one acre land at Alagarkoil near here on Friday.

The life supporting psycho-social rehabilitation project was taken up by the M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation at Ayathampatti village on the foothills of Alagarkoil in association with Subitcham, a family fellowship comprising of care givers and family members of mentally challenged persons.

Keshav Desiraju, Special Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare formally inaugurated the project in the presence of Sujaya Krishnan, Joint Secretary in the Ministry and C. Ramasubramanian, a well-known consultant psychiatrist who has been spearheading mental health activities in the State. Mentally ill persons and those recovering along with their family members/care givers would be involved in this agro project for their welfare. In the one acre land provided by the Trust, crops would be grown as per season and the income would be shared by the participating families.

“Most of the family members feel isolated due to the guilt feeling and stigma attached to the illness. But, through the voluntary fellowship initiative called Subitcham, they have developed confidence and camaraderie among themselves. The agro project will generate income and this is an agro-based rehabilitation for mentally ill persons and families,” says Dr. Ramasubramanian, popularly known as CRS.

While the family members of the mentally challenged persons will manage cultivation, those who have recovered through treatment will work on the field. Income will be shared by them and the Foundation along with agriculture experts and institutions would provide technical/marketing help. To begin with, the agro project will take off with vegetables.

“The money coming from agro project can be used for livelihood and to purchase medicines. Mental health professionals will support them and M. S. Chellamuthu Trust will extend logistics support,” he said.

Addressing the inmates and their families, the Special Secretary Mr. Desiraju, who is the grandson of former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, said that he has learnt a lot after meeting the patients and seeing the vocational work being done by them at Alagarkoil- bakery unit, candle unit, cafeteria, special school and so on.

“There are lessons to be learnt from this community. It is nice to see people from different places living together and no one is alone. I got an opportunity to see all of you,” he said referring to the mentally ill patients and their care givers.

Joint Secretary Ms. Sujaya Krishnan said that the agro initiative is a useful step to make the mentally ill persons as productive members in society after their treatment. “The M. S. Chellamuthu Trust is giving life to such people and this community mental health project is a role model project,” she added.

Earlier, they went around the campus and saw the facilities there after which K. S. P. Janardhan Babu, Assistant Director (programmes), made a presentation on the programmes being implemented by the Trust.

R. Rajkumari, Executive Director, M. S. Chellamuthu Trust, Janet Shankar, professor and Head of Department of Psychiatric Social Work in Madurai Institute of Social Sciences, N. M. H. Kalaivani, president, Subitcham and E. Ellappan, project coordinator, Agro Project, were among those who spoke.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/article3535812.ece