Karwan-e-Hayat Korangi Community Psychiatry Center

Awareness Session Held in Korangi #2 1/2

Report prepared by:

Afia Wajahat

Report Submitted to:

Dr. Fizza Yasmeen (In charge KCPC)

Date: 07/1/2014 Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Venue: Korangi # 2.1/2
Organized By: Community Mobilization Team (KCPC)

As KCPC community team has already collaborated with Town Health Services and arranged multiple camps in Basic Health Units, located in different areas of Korangi.
People are not accepting the psychiatric illness. They also believe in black magic. The community team try to decrease this stigma and try to persuade them for treatment to our centre.
Now Community team has collaborated and merged their awareness sessions with LHW’s sessions. It will be very useful to gather the participants

Within the context of continuous cooperation between the Town health services of Korangi (LHW) and the KCPC , the Community team of KCPC held a Psychiatric awareness session on Mental health at the home of one of LHW named “MS Yasmeen Shahid”, on January 7, 2014.

Sessions objective * Screening of common mental health problems among Communities (depression, anxiety, etc.) * Early detection of mental illness. * Raise awareness regarding the mental illness, significance of mental health, to decrease stigma related to mental illness. * Provide knowledge about mental health for the acceptance of mental illness.
Karwan-e-Hayat Korangi Community Psychiatric Centre conducted an Awareness session about Mental Health held on 07/1/2014 at Korangi # 2 1/2 .The Population of this area are Sindhi Muslim.
This successful Session was done by the Community Mobilization Team with support of LHW.
18 female participants attended this session & got awareness regarding