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`Focus is on psycho social rehabilitation of tsunami victims'

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: Director and Vice-Chancellor of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences D. Nagaraj has said that because of its psycho social care activities for two decades, the institute has been recognised by the Centre as the nodal agency for such care giving in disasters. "After the tsunami, specialists from NIMHANS reached out to the affected population," he said. Presiding over the WHO-NIMHANS workshop on `Psycho Social Support in Disasters' here on Friday, he said the focus is on psycho social rehabilitation of survivors of the tsunami and they will be further helped over the next one year.

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