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WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2009
Event report by Awais Saeed Abbasi 4th yr
On the event of World Mental Health
Day 2009, an awareness walk was organized by the Department of
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences PMC, Allied/DHQ Hospitals,
Faisalabad, Pakistan. The walk started at 11:30 AM from the
Administration Block of Punjab Medical College and ended at the
OPD Allied Hospital. The Chairman Organizing Committee was Dr.
Imtiaz Ahmed Dogar (HOD Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral
Sciences), Prof. Dr Yousaf Shah, Prof Dr. Ijaz Hussain Shah and a
number of other Doctors, Clinical Psychologists, Medical Students,
and Para-medical Staff members also participated in the walk.
There were specialized Posters made that contained awareness
regimens and preventive and protective measures against the Mental
Disorders, such posters were pasted at all the parts of Hospital
and other public places.
The
participants were holding Banners containing the slogans of Mental Health
Awareness. Full Media coverage was provided as a step for masses to get
aware of the ill consequences of Mental Related Diseases and interviews of
the Doctors and Clinical Psychologists were recorded and telecasted in order
to spread the awareness. At the end of the walk all the participants were
thanked and given refreshment. Medical camps were set up in the OPD Allied
Hospital where patients were given a free check up, in terms of Assessment
and Cure.
The walk
was a great success and was a collective effort of the whole of Department
of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
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Punjab
Medical College Faisalabad, Pakistan.
