Kalmunai Mental Health Association

Kalmunai Mental Health Association


Main Building
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.
 
Sri Lanka has some of the best primary care services in the world and the government is committed to achieving equally high standard in mental health care services. The government Sri Lanka acknowledged than the country has one of the higher suicide rates of any country in the world and in creasing substances misuses and psychological problems.
 
Also after years of civil war, the tsunami in 2004 and an estimated 2 percentage of the population suffering from serious mental illnesses. Kalmunai region badly affected by man made disaster and the Tsunami; people are living with any kind of mental disorders. Some are need any kind of intervention others like tip of the iceberg.
 
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

PRINCIPLES

  • To provide mental health services at primary, second and tertiary levels.
  • To provide services of good quality where and when they are needed.
  • To provide services that will be organized at community level with community, family and consumer participation.
  • To ensure mental health services will be linked to other sectors.
  • To ensure mental health services will be culturally appropriate and evidence based.
  • To protect the human rights and dignity of people with mental illnesses.
  • To educate the public about the mental illnesses and their out comes in different levels with different tools.
  • Promote the primary prevention of mental disorders by yoga and other cultural methods.

OBJECTIVES

Our mental health association objectives are
  • 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.

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.

Based on the assessed needs current services and principles for mental health care, the fallowing seven areas for action have been identified to achieve the vision and objecting of our association.