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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.
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