{"id":217039,"date":"2023-05-26T01:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=217039"},"modified":"2023-05-26T01:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:08:32","slug":"interventions-needed-to-address-mental-health-issues-libang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/05\/26\/interventions-needed-to-address-mental-health-issues-libang\/","title":{"rendered":"Interventions needed to address mental health issues: Libang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MIDPU, 25 May:<\/strong> &#8220;Mental health issues are serious and need immediate and effective psychological and medical interventions,&#8221; Health Minister Alo Libang said after inaugurating the Tele Mental Health Assistance &amp; Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) cell at the mental hospital here in Papum Pare district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cell will provide counselling to people going through mental health issues like depression or addiction by means of telephone and video calls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There has been a massive surge in mental health cases after the Covid-19 waves. Tele-MANAS aspires to provide 24\/7 online counselling with regard to any mental health issue. It is being manned by a counsellor, a clinical psychologist, and a psychiatrist, and the toll-free number 14416 has been made functional,&#8221; the minister informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calling for protecting the hospital compound from encroachment, he gave assurance that he would &#8220;look into the approval of a protection boundary wall for the hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 30-bedded hospital currently has nine indoor patients. On average, it provides treatment to eight to nine outdoor patients daily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, MLA Tana Hali Tara and officials of the health department were present at the inauguration. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIDPU, 25 May: &#8220;Mental health issues are serious and need immediate and effective psychological and medical interventions,&#8221; Health Minister Alo Libang said after inaugurating the Tele Mental Health Assistance &amp; Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) cell at the mental hospital here in Papum Pare district on Wednesday. The cell will provide counselling to people going through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}