A separate park for mental patients and the elderly will be built in the health center located in Karond, BMHRC. Additionally, two herbal gardens will also be prepared.

CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: BMHRC’s Health Center No. 7 and Psychiatry Department are being made even more convenient for patients. The pharmacy here has been expanded. Separate space has been designated for maintaining medical records of psychiatric patients. Separate parks are being built for mental patients and elderly patients, and two other herbal gardens are being established. Work has begun on this, and these parks will be ready in the next few months.

BMHRC’s Acting Director Manisha Shrivastava said that there was sufficient space available for a park in the premises of Health Center No. 7. That’s why the decision to build a park here was made. She mentioned that outdoor activities are crucial for the treatment of mental illness patients alongside medication. That’s why a separate park is being built for them here. Various swings will be installed for the activity of children affected by mental illness. A park for elderly patients is also being prepared. Two other parks will have herbal gardens where plants with various medicinal properties will be planted. In this regard, the Integrated Health Center located within Health Center No. 7 will seek assistance from government doctors of homeopathy, Ayurveda, and Unani medicine to provide free consultation to patients and plant medicinal herbs based on their advice so that patients can benefit from them.

Dr. Shrivastava mentioned that the Psychiatry Department is located within Health Center No. 7. The pharmacy here was small. It has now been expanded. Additionally, a separate space has been designated for the medical records of patients in the Psychiatry Department, so that psychiatric patients can immediately receive their medical record files.

All medicines are available: Manisha Shrivastava mentioned that now all patients at BMHRC and all health centers are receiving medicines. A new stock of necessary ventilator flow pumps for lung patients has always been available and is being distributed to needy patients. She mentioned that the government has created a National List of Essential Medicines. It is essential for all government hospitals to have the medicines listed in this list. Now this policy is being implemented in BMHRC.