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The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill,2014, is under review. In the report on the Bill ,Union Minister Maneka Gandhi is reported to have made the following observations: There is no difference between mental illness and mental disability in the bill. For instance, how can a person with Schizophrenia be given a job? What a jaundiced view of a high profile Union Minister on mental illness? Schizophrenia is like any other disease and the patient can be rehabilitated well with quality therapy, counselling, family care and social support. Mental illness is a taboo even now, and the mentally ill are ostracised, humiliated,ill-treated, and denied their basic human rights.
 We, Padma Shri Dr. Shanthi Ranganathan (Director, TTK Hospital); Dr. K.R. Gangadharan (Former President, International Federation on Ageing and Chairman of Heritage Healthcare; P.P. Sukumaran (President-HR, GVK Group); Dr. K. Prabakar (CEO, Apollo Knowledge); Dr. J.M. Sampath (Managing Director, Arpitha Associates), Dr. Vandana Gopikumar (Founder, The Banyan and Professor of Social Work, TISS ) ; Dr. T.K. Nair (Former Principal, MSSW), and hundreds of members of the MSSW Renaissance Group (MARG), write this letter to all members of the Board of Management in the best interest of the institution.
Social Work Foot Prints (SWFP) is a peer reviewed journal. It strives to promote high quality social work education and to uphold professional ethics based social work practice in India. Following the publication of the Facebook post Social Work Piracy in January, 2016 SWFP made detailed investigation and the present post is the outcome Centre for the Welfare of the Aged (CEWA) CEWA, formed in 1979, pioneered community-based elder care services in India as an alternative to the increasing trend of Homes for the Aged. Besides promoting elder care service, CEWA has been a centre of research, training, publications, advocacy and consultancy on ageing and elder care. The United Nations invited CEWA to participate in two consultations held at Bangkok and Macau in 1996 and 1997, respectively. |
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