Islamabad: (Parliament Times) A Charity event has been organized by the Chairperson Concern for Mental Health Tehreem Siagol at Chak Shehzad, Islamabad to raise the awareness regarding the issues, challenges and solutions for mental healthcare. Ambassador Nila Choan, Ms, Nina Saeed, Lady Ghazala Hameed, Ambassador of Hungry, Brig. Zarrif & Ms. Ruby Malik along with the worthy diplomats, dignitaries, participants and activists from different of walks of life are invited to grace the charity event. Moreover, to encourage people to opt for mental healthcare and treatment, experts and psychiatrists will be addressing the issue and will also propose solutions and innovative ideas to the concerned authorities to curb this issue in a way practical and smooth way. Concern for Mental Health has set up model programs for treatment, counseling, occupational therapy, rehabilitation services, medications, particularly paying attention to the underprivileged indigent populations.
Currently, Mental Health care is one of the burning issues worldwide which requires huge amount of solution seeking attention like never before, even the developed countries with higher standard of living are facing the increasing mental health issues. Mental disorders which are commonly found worldwide are: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Depression, Unipolar Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, and Substance Dependency. The main issue is to encourage people enough to talk about it and accept it as any other disease and feel no shame in getting help. Mental health issues are always considered as taboo and not much talked about regardless of socio-economic conditions, which has eventually caused an extravagant increase in the issue.
On this occasion, CFMH Founder & Chairperson Ms. Ghazala Afzal Hameed said “CFMH is committed to nurture positive attitude towards mental illness in Pakistan and strive to raise more awareness on sensitively of this issue. We have specially tailored programs for the treatment of psychiatric treatment and support training of Mental Health Professionals. Our aim is to launch more programs for producing highly professional breed of psychiatrist who can not only treat mental diseases but also educate locals to better deal with patience in their respective communities.
Due to its uber-sensitivity, now it is the high time to create awareness regarding the mental healthcare among the masses and also to educate them about its treatments and medication. The biggest challenge in this regard is to change the mindset and preconceived notions of people related to mental healthcare and treatment.n 2015, there were only 380 trained psychiatrists in Pakistan which mean 1 psychiatrist for 500,000 people, whereas Government devotes only 0.4% of their budget on mental healthcare which is alarming and not suffice. Suicide is amongst the top ten leading causes of death in the developing part of the world.
Another major objective of this charity event is to attract the donors by informing them about the complexity and challenges pertaining to the subject so that more and more people are encouraged to donate for the treatment of sufferers of mental illness and for their rehabilitation. A large number of attendees and philanthropists are expected to attend the said charity event. This charity event is also aimed to create sensitivity towards the sufferers so that they are also considered as the active members of the society as anybody else.
