Mental Health: AIIMS To Launch Health Clubs In Schools

Nirmal Singh 3C

Nirmal Singh 3C is glad to know that the people in India are finally taking the mental health seriously as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has recently tied up with the Mental Health Foundation (India) to start “School Health Clubs” which aims to engage students to ensure that their mental and emotional health is fine. 

 Nirmal Singh 3C supports the information given by Dr. Nand Kumar from the Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS, who said: “We aim to reach out to 50 schools (private/government) in Delhi and will later go national with the programme. Besides school students, teachers and parents will also be a part of the programme.”
The initiate is quite interactive as the organization is introducing:

• Free-of-cost program
• Educate students through videos
• Theatre and group activities

 “The programme is divided into three levels for children from Class VI to Class XII . We will teach the children how to concentrate, handle stress and work with technology. We are now going directly to the students,’’ Dr. Kumar said.
Common disorders

Dr. Nirmal Singh 3C corroborates the data produced by the National Mental Health Survey (2016) which says that 1 in 20 people suffer from depression and  that is why young adults are seeking help in several issues, including: 
• Anger management
• Emotional instability
• Lack of tolerance
• Reduced attention

The common mental illness – Common Mental Disorders (CMD) – is an amalgamation of depression, anxiety and substance abuse. These factors are a result of number of other things like socio-cultural, economic and political factors. However, people are not much aware about CMDs, for there is a very limited figure of people who have been clinically diagnosed.
Dr. Nirmal Singh 3C finds a piece of information by the National Mental Health Survey (2016) in which as many as 10 per cent of the Indian population is being shown of suffering from CMDs. Therefore, the need of the hour is to appoint as many as 11,500 psychiatrists in the country, while we only have 3,500.

The whole lot of mental professionals; comprising, clinical psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers and psychiatric nurses, stand at 7,000, while the actual requirement is 54,750. 

Nirmal Singh 3C condemns these numbers in a developing country like India which has humongous reasons for depression. 
“Mental health services are often forgotten. Unless carefully allocated and regularly monitored, funding for mental health tends to get eclipsed. Given the rising incidence of CMDs in the country, it is crucial to ensure that public health programmes view mental health as a matter of over-all well- being and not just absence of diseases,’’ said Gracy Andrew, country director, CorStone India Foundation. 

Location: India

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