The opening ceremony of the new Rehabilitation and GBV Unit in the Base Hospital, Kalmunai was held on 27th February 2010.
Kalmunai Mental Health Association

In fifteen year time mental illness will be the number one cause of morbidity in the world. Mental disorders are very common among the population, they present with multiple somatic complains to the GPs day to day practice. In Sri Lanka the prevalence are very high.
If we consider the depressive disorders are very common with the prevalence of 5 – 10 percentage in primary care settings they rank forth as causes of disability world wide and it has been projected that may rank second by the year 2020. The prevalence of depressive symptoms may be high as 30 percentages in the general population with women being twice as likely to be affected as men.