Kalmunai Mental Health Association

Our Vision

A comprehensive and community based services is to be established which will optimize the mental health in our people in Kalmunai region. This accessible and affordable service will promote the mental well being of the community at large and ensure the dignity and rights of all with any barriers

Our Mission

The mission is to improve the Kalmunai mental health services is on prevention of mental illnesses; promotion of mental well being and rehabilitations people and maximizes their normal life, where illness does occur. It must provide care where need for people lives at home where admission to hospital is necessary this should be as near a person’s home as possible. To these ends, more is a need to modernize existing services, create new and additional services recruit and train more skilled staff and volunteers and to Government and non government.

Our Objectives

To be an essential instrument to ensure clarity of vision and purpose in the improvement of the mental health and psychological well being of our people in Kalmunai region.

To treat mental disorder in an efficient and holistic mind.

Opening Ceremony - Rehabilitation Unit, Kalmunai

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.