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By Our Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, OCT. 31. More than 300 delegates from India and abroad will attend the second international conference of the World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders (WFSAD) to be held here from November 2 to 4. The conference will provide a common platform to service providers and patients and their families for cooperation, said Radha Shankar, organising secretary, International Conference for Families and Consumers.
Focus of presentations
The focus of the presentations would be on finding solutions through collective action and would not be on individual problems, she told mediapersons here. There would be about 30 presentations, more than half of these would be by families and recovering patients, said its joint secretary, Ratna Chibber. A panel discussion and an open house on `what it means to experience stigma' would also be organised. The panel for the discussion would comprise recovering patients, their caregivers and professionals in the field. One of the main issues the Fellowship sought to address related to ensuring continuity in care to the mentally ill, said the WFSAD president, Jim Crowe. All over the world, patients with major mental illness and their families organised themselves into associations and self-help groups to fight stigma, promote awareness, treatment and rehabilitation, and the rights of patients and caregivers. India needed a family movement in mental health, he said. The conference patron, M. Sarada Menon, said the vast majority of patients lived with their families. The families provided the mentally ill with medical, financial and emotional support. The responsibility of the care rested solely on the family, she added.
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