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Mental health programme to be extended to 6 more districts

Mental Health Programme is long overdue
At least now, they are concentrating on areas other than RCH / MCH / CSSM etc
When will Trauma Care get attention !

News Report from http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article2488098.ece

It has been proposed to extend the District Mental Health programme (DMHP) to cover six more districts in Tamil Nadu, taking the total number of districts thus served to 22.
The new districts in the proposal are Coimbatore, Dindigul, Sivaganga, Pudukottai, Tuticorin and Villupuram. The State Nodal Officer of the DMHP C. Ramasubramaniam said that the decision to propose extension was taken in view of the success of the existing DMHP services in the other districts. Of the 16 projects already initiated, three (Madurai, Tiruchi, Ramanathapuram) had been completed, while they are ongoing in 13 (Theni, Kanyakumari, Erode, Dharmapuri, Tiruvallur, Cuddalore, Virudhunagar, Kancheepuram, Perambalur, Namakkal, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Chennai) districts.
“When we say three projects have been completed, it means Central Government funding has ceased, and the State Government is ready to take over, or has already taken over the project,” Dr. Ramasubramaniam explained.
“Even at the commencement of the project, the State provides an undertaking that at the end of the four-year term, it would adopt, and continue to fund the DMHP in that district.” Tiruchi has already been taken over, while the districts of Madurai and Ramanathapuram will soon come under the wings of the State's health care services. The idea is to cover the entire State under the DMHP, he added.
The basic philosophy of the DMHP is to reach the unreached with mental health care. DMHP integrates mental health care with general health care by setting up a ten-bedded psychiatric care unit within the district government hospital.
“Most mental illness problems begin as mild psychiatric disorders. At the beginning, they are also manifested as somatic (physical) complaints. Usually, these complaints include numbness, burning sensation, loss of appetite, and they go to the general physician,” Dr. Ramasubramaniam said.
If this physician is trained to identify basic psychiatric symptoms, they can immediately start treatment. “The thing with disability caused by mental illness is that, if detected and treated early, the recovery can be nearly 100 per cent,” he added. Besides, locating the mental healthcare institution within a general health care institution contributes in no small measure to removing stigma.
The Centre allocates a sum of Rs.89 lakh per district for four years, to be spent on awareness building, training medics, paramedics and non-medical personnel. Trained psychologists and psychiatric social workers will also be appointed. Some of the funds will also go into setting up the infrastructure.
Tamil Nadu has also focussed on the rehabilitation aspect of people who have been cured, Dr. Ramasubramaniam explained. Relationships have been established with the poverty-alleviation oriented ‘Vaazhnthu Kattuvom' project of the State Government, and efforts are on to ensure some work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for those who have recovered.

Notification of Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani Tibb Registered Medical Practitioners as persons practicing the modern scientific system of medicine

ABSTRACT
Indian System of Medicine – Notification of Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani Tibb
Registered Medical Practitioners as persons practicing the modern scientific system of
medicine under the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 – Orders – Issued.
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HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (IM 2 -2) DEPARTMENT
G.O. (Ms) No. 248 Dated : 08.09.2010
Thiruvalluvar Aandu 2041
Aavani 23
ORDER :
The following Notification will be published in the Tamil Nadu Government
Gazettee .
NOTIFICATION.
WHEREAS, the rights of practitioners of Indian System of Medicine are
protected under section 17(3) (b) of the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970
(Central Act 48 of 1970) ;
AND WHEREAS, as per section 2 (1) (e) of the said Act, “Indian Medicine“
means the system of Indian Medicine commonly known as Ashtang Ayurveda, Siddha
or Unani Tibb whether supplemented or not by such modern advances, as the Central
Council of Indian Medicine may declare by notification from time to time ;
AND WHEREAS , the Central Council of Indian Medicine in its Notification
F.No.28-5/2004-AY.(MM), dated the 19th May 2004, has clarified that the word “Modern
Advances” in clause (e) of section 2 (1) of the said Act as advances made in the
various branches of modern scientific medicine in all its branches of internal
medicine , surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics , anesthesiology, diagnostic procedures
and other technological innovation made from time to time and declare that the courses
and curriculum conducted and recognized by the Central Council of Indian Medicine are
supplemented with such modern advances ;
AND WHEREAS , the Central Council of Indian Medicine has improved and
strengthened the syllabus of Indian Medicine by including subjects with regard to
National Programmes like National Malaria Eradication programmes, Tuberculosis,
Leprosy, Family Welfare Programme, Reproductive and Child Health Programme,
Immunisation Programme, AIDS, Cancer etc ;
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Now, THEREFORE, under sub - clause (iii) of clause (ee) of rule 2 of the Drugs
and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 the Governor of Tamil Nadu hereby declares every
registered medical practitioner holding the qualifications specified in the second, third
or fourth Schedule to the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 (Central Act
48 of 1970) and Part III of the Schedule to the Tamil Nadu Siddha System of Medicine
(Development and Registration of Practitioners) Act , 1997 (Tamil Nadu Act 34 of 1997)
and registered in the Medical Register of the State maintained under the aforesaid
Acts, as a person practicing the modern scientific system of medicine for the purposes
of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (Central Act 23 of 1940.)
(BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR)
V.K.SUBBURAJ
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT
To
The Principal Secretary and Commissioner of
Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy,
Arumbakkam, Chennai – 106.
The Works Manager,
Government General Press,
Chennai.- 2 (for publication of Notification in the Government Gazette)
The Registrar,
Tamil Nadu Siddha Medical Council,
Arumbakkkam, Chennai – 106.
The Registrar,
Tamil Nadu Board of Indian Medicine,
Arumbakkkam, Chennai – 106.
The Director General of Police,
Chennai – 4,
SF/SC
// Forwarded / By Order //
SECTION OFFICER