Public-private partnership: Ground broken for rehab, mental health institution
Fountain House being built on 54 kanals, will be completed by July 2013.
SARGODHA:
The city will have its own 50-bed Fountain House, hopefully by the end of the current fiscal year, through a public-private partnership.
The ground-breaking ceremony of the rehab and treatment centre was held on Sunday. The institution that is being built on 54-kanal land on Faisalabad Road will be managed by the Lahore Mental Health Association.
According to the Fountain House coordinator Irfan Butt, the project is estimated to cost Rs60 million. Thirty million rupees, he said, have been donated by the Lahore Mental Health Association. An NGO announced a donation of Rs10 million for the mental health hospital.
The hospital will offer counselling to both patients and their families on how to help the patients in changing their behaviour. It will also offer music therapy, ergotherapy and psychotherapy to treat patients. It will also have a library and a computer lab. The male and female wards will have 25 beds each to begin with.
Lahore Mental Health Association President Justice Nasira Iqbal, who broke the ground, later said that the institution will help addicts, the mentally ill and the mentally disabled to lead healthy and normal lives.
University of Sargodha Vice Chancellor Dr Chaudhry Mohammad Akram said that the Fountain House would also be a great training ground for psychology students.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2012.
The city will have its own 50-bed Fountain House, hopefully by the end of the current fiscal year, through a public-private partnership.
The ground-breaking ceremony of the rehab and treatment centre was held on Sunday. The institution that is being built on 54-kanal land on Faisalabad Road will be managed by the Lahore Mental Health Association.
According to the Fountain House coordinator Irfan Butt, the project is estimated to cost Rs60 million. Thirty million rupees, he said, have been donated by the Lahore Mental Health Association. An NGO announced a donation of Rs10 million for the mental health hospital.
The hospital will offer counselling to both patients and their families on how to help the patients in changing their behaviour. It will also offer music therapy, ergotherapy and psychotherapy to treat patients. It will also have a library and a computer lab. The male and female wards will have 25 beds each to begin with.
Lahore Mental Health Association President Justice Nasira Iqbal, who broke the ground, later said that the institution will help addicts, the mentally ill and the mentally disabled to lead healthy and normal lives.
University of Sargodha Vice Chancellor Dr Chaudhry Mohammad Akram said that the Fountain House would also be a great training ground for psychology students.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2012.