14.04 Hours MENTAL HEALTHCARE BILL, 2016 Àééxéxééòªé ºÉ£ÉÉ
27.03.2017 116 14.04 hours MENTAL HEALTHCARE BILL, 2016 àÉÉxÉxÉÉÒªÉ ºÉ£ÉÉ{ÉÉÊiÉ: +É¤É ÉÊ´ÉvÉäªÉBÉE {É® SÉSÉÉÇ cÉäMÉÉÒ* àÉÉxÉxÉÉÒªÉ bÉì. ÉÊcxÉÉ ÉÊ´ÉVɪÉBÉÖEàÉÉ® MÉÉ´ÉÉÒiÉ VÉÉÒ ¤ÉÉäãÉ ®cÉÒ lÉÉÒ* bÉì. ÉÊcxÉÉ ÉÊ´ÉVɪÉBÉÖEàÉÉ® MÉÉ´ÉÉÒiÉ VÉÉÒ, +ÉÉ{É ¤ÉÉäÉÊãÉA* DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT (NANDURBAR): Thank you, Chairman, Sir. I rise to support the Mental Health Care Bill, 2016. In our country, we see that in most of the cities, people with mental illness are wandering on the streets. Nobody is there to take care of them. This Mental Health Care Bill, 2016, has made a special provision for all those people who are suffering with mental illness and are wandering on the streets. The Bill makes a provision that the police officer, who is the in-charge of the police station, in whose area people are wandering at a large scale, can take them under his protection and those people will be subject to examination by a medical officer. If their residences are known, those people will be taken to their residences. If their residences are not known, those people will be taken to establishments for homeless persons. Further, if a police officer, in-charge of a police station, thinks that such a person, who is suffering from mental illness, is being ill-treated or is being neglected, then he can report such cases to the magistrate. The magistrate can ask for a report and pass an order to cause the person to be produced before him, to be subsequently examined by a medical officer or a mental health professional or be provisionally admitted to the mental health establishment.
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