ID :
23903
Sat, 10/11/2008 - 10:56
Auther :
Shortlink :
http://m.oananews.org//node/23903
The shortlink copeid
W NUSA TENGGARA TO HOST 5TH NATIONAL SCHIZOPHRENIA CONGRESS
Mataram, Oct 10 (ANTARA) - West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province is scheduled to host the Fifth National Congress on Schizophrenia on October 24-26, a local official said.
"The decision was made not because there is a great number of schizophrenic cases here, but because we want to promote NTB as a tourist destination," Dr Elly Rosila, director of the Mataram Mental Hospital said here Friday.
She said the congress was part of the 26th World Mental Health Day commemoration on October 10 which featured mental health as a global priority by increasing services through advocacy and social activities.
The congress which will be held at Sentosa Villas and resort, Senggigi tourist site, West Lombok would be organized by the Association of Indonesian Psychiatrists (PDSKJI) which groups around 400 psychiatrists and students of psychiatry.
"It is expected that the congress will issue various recommendations on the need to pay serious attention to mental disorder cases and for funding from the government and the private sector," she said.
Rosila said the PDSKJI would also hold a one-day seminar on Insomnia: Its Impact and How to Overcome It' on October 23 at the Lombok Raya Hotel in Mataram . The seminar was also meant for lay people to deal with sleeping disorders and its various problems.
"At the same location and on the same day a simposium 'Psychiatry Examination for General Practitioners' will also be held," she said.
A series of events in commemorating world mental health day had the purpose of increasing people's knowledge about mental health.
Even though mental disorders do not directly cause death, they can make an individual suffer for a long time and make him or her a burden to the family.
Therefore, mental disorder needed to be recognized and anticipated in their early stage because they were more than psychoses.
"Anxiety, depression, laziness, inability to work with peers, a tendency to be angered easily, insomnia, drug and alcohol addiction, senility and schizophrenia can be categorized as mental disorders," she said.
"The decision was made not because there is a great number of schizophrenic cases here, but because we want to promote NTB as a tourist destination," Dr Elly Rosila, director of the Mataram Mental Hospital said here Friday.
She said the congress was part of the 26th World Mental Health Day commemoration on October 10 which featured mental health as a global priority by increasing services through advocacy and social activities.
The congress which will be held at Sentosa Villas and resort, Senggigi tourist site, West Lombok would be organized by the Association of Indonesian Psychiatrists (PDSKJI) which groups around 400 psychiatrists and students of psychiatry.
"It is expected that the congress will issue various recommendations on the need to pay serious attention to mental disorder cases and for funding from the government and the private sector," she said.
Rosila said the PDSKJI would also hold a one-day seminar on Insomnia: Its Impact and How to Overcome It' on October 23 at the Lombok Raya Hotel in Mataram . The seminar was also meant for lay people to deal with sleeping disorders and its various problems.
"At the same location and on the same day a simposium 'Psychiatry Examination for General Practitioners' will also be held," she said.
A series of events in commemorating world mental health day had the purpose of increasing people's knowledge about mental health.
Even though mental disorders do not directly cause death, they can make an individual suffer for a long time and make him or her a burden to the family.
Therefore, mental disorder needed to be recognized and anticipated in their early stage because they were more than psychoses.
"Anxiety, depression, laziness, inability to work with peers, a tendency to be angered easily, insomnia, drug and alcohol addiction, senility and schizophrenia can be categorized as mental disorders," she said.
