.....And an audience to SEE your ‘care’ for FREE?
Once Individuals with serious mental illness enter the portals of the care centres defined as 'mental health establishments' in the Mental health Care Bill - which won’t be easy after all the legal documentation -> one would be offered a platter of treatments.
The Bill is silent on the kinds of treatments which would be offered. Also silent on a prescribed fundamental standard of care to meet the varying degrees of cognitive impairments and complex medical needs of individuals with serious mental illness.
Strange when the constitution of India one of the few constitutions in the world spells out ‘scientific temper.’
Most of the print and electronic media in India short of slobbering and falling at the Government of India’s feet has been hailing the Bill as a ‘revolution’ after constantly publishing photographs of bewildered individuals with mental illness foraging garbage, peeping through windows complacently from one of the forty Government Mental Hospitals in India or chained by their families and claiming that all the families in India who have a family member with Mental illness are ‘dumped’ in Tiger Reserves or out to get their property and this much before the Land Acquisition Bill was passed by our Parliament. Most of the print media have gone on to say that our government is benevolent and compassionate for being so generous to bestow our family members with serious mental illness ‘rights’.
Somewhere it was missed out that yet another crucial right has been withheld. ->the Right to Confidentiality Data. So the case history, a source of great vulnerability for individuals with serious mental illness would be *poached*.
Once Individuals with serious mental illness enter the portals of the care centres defined as 'mental health establishments' in the Mental health Care Bill - which won’t be easy after all the legal documentation -> one would be offered a platter of treatments.
The Bill is silent on the kinds of treatments which would be offered. Also silent on a prescribed fundamental standard of care to meet the varying degrees of cognitive impairments and complex medical needs of individuals with serious mental illness.
Strange when the constitution of India one of the few constitutions in the world spells out ‘scientific temper.’
Most of the print and electronic media in India short of slobbering and falling at the Government of India’s feet has been hailing the Bill as a ‘revolution’ after constantly publishing photographs of bewildered individuals with mental illness foraging garbage, peeping through windows complacently from one of the forty Government Mental Hospitals in India or chained by their families and claiming that all the families in India who have a family member with Mental illness are ‘dumped’ in Tiger Reserves or out to get their property and this much before the Land Acquisition Bill was passed by our Parliament. Most of the print media have gone on to say that our government is benevolent and compassionate for being so generous to bestow our family members with serious mental illness ‘rights’.
Somewhere it was missed out that yet another crucial right has been withheld. ->the Right to Confidentiality Data. So the case history, a source of great vulnerability for individuals with serious mental illness would be *poached*.
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