Question

(17.3) What can a community do to provide safety for the mentally ill and safety for the community?

Answer 1

There are various community development and community medical health programs which are established by the state governments with volunteers who make people aware of various mental disorders like schizophrenia,alzheimers disease, parkinson disease, suicidal thoughts, depression,stress and anxiety.There are various programs and conferences which make people aware of such diseases and their consequences in society.The government generates funds for the campaigning and proper nurturing and care of such people in society.National safety council has layed dowm various plans for the benefit of citizens with provision of proper environment,infrastructure and facilities required for the setting up of such organization with approving requirements for providing medicines and other prescriptions from doctors,nurses and physicians to the patients at regular intervals,preparation of diagnostic files and reports to be analysed later by doctors, preparation of statistical survey reports with generation of funds for organizing health care missions in cities and villages.The government offices have the deputed officials who have the responsibility of maintening records of works and other important information related to the development and maintenance of health facilities of people at nominal costs.Various medical ambulances are deputed in cities and villages which provide check-up of health,blood pressure,breathing,eye problems and other biomedical analysis of mentally ill patients on a regular basis.Doctors also provide Yoga exercises to patients which helps in maintening blood pressure,reduces stress and anxiety in society.MacArthur Violence risk assessment study plans have been set-up to study and analyse the cases of bipolar disorder,split personality, depression, autism, with hallucinations and hysteria with analysis of statistical parameters.