Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (IMHH), Agra (28th March to 30th
March, 2011)
All wards had been provided with colour TVs. The cultural and recreational
avenues promoted by IMHH included both indoor and outdoor games like carom,
chess, ludo, cards and outdoor sports as cricket, volleyball, badminton; annual
sports organized for the patients along with employees and staff members of the
hospital on Republic Day every year; screening of good, entertaining, educational
movies and movies with serious moral lessons at the auditorium equipped with
LCD Projector; cultural programmes organized by the Cultural Committee of
IMHH; prayers, bhajans and kirtans at the Sarvadharma Parthana Ghar; outdoor
picnics for patients; celebration of other festivals like Id, Bakrid, Basanta Panchami,
Holi, Hariyali Teej, Rakshya Bandhan, Dusserah, Karva Chauth, Deewali,
Janmashtami, Christmas etc.; celebration of various other awareness programmes
like World Mental Health Week through role plays, nukkad nataks, street theatres,
skits, simulation exercises etc. The Director, MS, faculty members, GDMOs fully
participated in these events along with the patients.
Institute of Psychiatry (IOP), Kolkata (27th November, 2010)
The television sets and indoor games like carom board were inadequate. The
sports and indoor games, yoga, exercises and other cultural activities were run
by the nursing staff with limited equipment.
iv)
Library Services
Library provides a window to the outside world to broaden inmates’ horizon and
keep them abreast of the latest changes and developments. A library with books,
journals, periodicals and newspapers for patients and family members/relatives
staying with them provides access to information of interest and relevance to
their lives and eventually to their empowerment.
The library service would mean a fully furnished library exclusively meant for
patients and their family members. The library for the patients/family members
primarily caters to preferences and interests of patients and provides them
access to reading material including light reading story books, magazines,
periodicals and newspapers in their local language. Library also provides
opportunities to patients to express one’s creativity through writing and explore
and enhance inherent potentials of patients.
The library facilities provided by different mental health hospitals for indoor
patients are given below:
The Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Hyderabad (19th and 20th July, 2010)
IMH Hyderabad had a separate library for inpatients and their family members
and newspapers in English and Telugu were provided to inmates in the
wards.
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