Projects

Free Treatment by Qualified Psychiatrists

The Trust owns two fully equipped Mobile Clinics and these clinics cover all 91 Panchayat (local self governing bodies) and 4 Municipal towns in the District every month. A qualified and experienced psychiatrist and supporting Para medical staff attend to patients at their own places. A schedule is prepared for the entire month and circulated to the panchayat and municipal offices, besides announcing the panchayat and municipalities covered each day with the help of local newspapers. The Mobile Clinics give treatment including medicines to the patients, all absolutely free of cost.

Full Time Rehabilitation centre

The Trust runs a fully equipped Rehabilitation Centre at Ongallur, near Pattambi, some 55 kms. from the District town, Palakkad. Besides providing medical treatment and engaging them physically and mentally through entertainment and education, the inmates are also given training to develop skills for various jobs.

Awareness Camps

The Trust conducts various programmes to help the society in general and voluntary agencies and workers in particular to develop empathy and generate helping attitudes towards mentally challenged persons. This is a regular and ongoing programme of the Trust and it is aimed to involve more and more persons in the coming years so that there will be continued help coming from the society as a whole for these unfortunate persons.

Future Plans

The Trust wants to achieve the following in the coming Years.

• To establish a fully equipped modern Mental Hospital with full complementary clinical and nursing staff and including facilities for mental and physical health well being by 2008.
• To establish a Rehabilitation Centre with facilities for developing various skills. This centre will admit patients from different strata of society, absolutely free for poor, moderate charges for middle income group and reasonable charges for those who can afford.
• To establish rural middle level Rehabilitation Centers and day-care units at the panchayat level for local patients.