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Clinic at Bidhan Nagar Sub Divisional Hospital |
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Yet another achievement for NIBS to run
independently an outdoor mental health care
services at the Bidhan Nagar Sub Divisional
Hospital at Salt Lake. This is for the first
time that Government has entrusted an NGO
to run outdoor clinic at the government
hospital.
It was Dr.
Kedar Ranjan Banerjee, Secretary NIBS who
has been insisting on the Government of
West Bengal for spreading mental health
awareness and concentrate more on mental
health services which has been lacking in
the state.
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It was Dr. Surya Kanta Mishra, Honourable
Health Minister of West Bengal and Mr. Ashim
Barman, IAS, Secretary Department of Health,
Government of West Bengal who stood by NIBS
and recognized the sincere effort for mental
health care of mass.
The Out door
services was inaugurated by the health minister
himself on 18th January, 2003 at the hospital
premises in presence of the distinguished
personalities, Hospital authorities, friends
of NIBS and the patients.
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portion of Bidhan Nagar Sub Divisional Hospital
was allotted to NIBS to run regular mental
health care services independently. In his
speech, the minister appreciated the gesture
of NIBS and assured to consider the proposal
of NIBS for running the school children health
care service that NIBS has named as "Project
Guardian".
The mental health care outdoor service, first
of its kind in the state shall render services
to the people of in and around Salt Lake and
shall be equipped with Psychiatrists, Psychologists,
General Physicians and Para Medical Team.
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In his speech, Dr. Banerjee, Secretary NIBS
said that NIBS did not want to confine its
services in the area of psychiatry alone,
but wanted to establish this clinic as a behaviroural
therapy center. Along with psychiatrists and
Psychologists, specialists for mentally retarded
persons and special educators will attend
the Out Door Clinic. Primarily, Consultants
of NIBS will attend to the patients from Monday
to Saturday during the outdoor timings of
the hospital. medicines will be given to the
patients free of costs, as practised in other
outdoor departments of a government hospital. |
For
details, please contact
nibsindia@vsnl.com
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