Mental Health

  • Guna Raj Lohani, Chief of Policy, Planning and Monitoring Division, Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) was committed in the Talk of the Town to provide his full support to enhance the context of mental health in Nepal by contributing to the ongoing activities and action plan.
  • Dr. Roshan Pokhrel, Chief Specialist of Ministry of Health and Population was interview to ensure to establish the functional Mental Health Division subsequently after the Center for Disease Control (CDC) model gets passed. On the episode, he also further committed that there will be minimum 10 beds inward facility to provide mental health service and at least 1 psychiatrist within 200 beds capacity hospitals; digital health record process will be setup; and trainings will be provided to 1,000 health professionals within a year.
  • Round table discussion with various governmental officials, representatives from ministry, stakeholder and concern agents to carried out effective of mental health related activities. On the episode, various issues, ongoing activities and suggestions to uplift the context of mental health were shared.
  • Mr. Khumkanta Acharya, Under Secretary of Peace, Security and Crime Control Section, Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) commits to provide needed support from MoHA to uplift the context of mental health in Nepal.
  • Dr. Kedar Marahatta, Representative of WHO shared that WHO is coordinating with government of Nepal and related organizations to conduct suicide prevention program and mental health program for old age people and closes the discussion as committing that he will play an important role to ensure to increase the next year budget of WHO Nepal for mental health.
  • Dr. Pradip Gyanwali, Member Secretary of Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) ensures to get involved in implementing the strategies as committing that there will be growing researches in sector of mental health.
  • Dr. Kamal Gautam, Executive Manager of Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) committed to work prevent and promote mental health wellbeing as bringing tangible changes in 5 districts.
  • Matrika Devkota, Mental Health Advocate/Campaigner make a significant suggestion by explaining the importance of public health and how can be the stance of mental health could be uplifted through making aware to family and society.
  • Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control illustrates why mental health is important as contrasting the context of the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 and formulate the possible plans to implement the best effective models to prevent and minimize the mental health issues and build the institutional capacity nationwide