Union Health Minister Mandaviya raised the idea of incorporating the role of Indian traditions for good mental health in the medical syllabus, on the occasion of "World Mental Health Day".
The Union Health Minister, Mansukh Mandaviya was addressing the audience at an event organised by National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore today, October 10, 2021. During which he suggested incorporating the role of Indian traditions in maintaining a good mental health, in the medical syllabus at the event organised at
Highlighted the need for well informed social discourse on mental health while addressing a programme to mark #WorldMentalHealthDay at NIMHANS.
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As the event was organised to make people aware about "Mental Health" the Minister talked about the importance of mental health through his speech, during which he said, “We need to understand the way of curing mental problems through traditional Indian ways.”
“I think we can incorporate in our syllabus the role of our traditions to keep a good mental health. The experts should study the traditional family structure,which can automatically help to cure mental problems", he added.
As per the minister, mental health is influenced by all the activities we perform and the event we regularly participate in. This includes attending festivals, gatherings and other social events. “All such traditions play an important part to maintain a good mental health and work more as traditional cures to mental health problems”, he added.
The Minister suggested that NIMHANS Courses should be structured such that, faculty can give tasks to students for research and not just limit their education to study books and pass the exam. He bewailed that the country cannot get what it requires from the existing education system.
"We have lots of expectations from the institutes, the faculty team as well as the researchers because they can help significantly for the future and development of the country and its future and thus your work should be nation centric," Mandaviya said.
The minister mooted the gathering to address the issue of mental health more actively so that we can recognise and cure such mental health issues more effectively. Mandaviya also urged NIMHANS to study this issue deeply so that effective policies can be made by the government.
As an educational institute plays an important role in bringing about such positive changes, he asked the institute come out with methodologies so that the government can introduce a policy to include role of Indian traditions in mental lealth in the syllabus of medical courses.
The Karnataka Health minister, K Sudhakar and the National Health Minister director, Vikas Sheel also shared their valuable views with the gathering and made them more aware about the role of Mental Health.
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