Justice Anand visits RINPAS, Ranchi
Dr. Justice A.S. Anand, Chairperson, NHRC along with Shri Chaman Lal Special Rapporteur visited the Ranchi Institute of Neuro Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS) in Ranchi on 19th March 2005.
During his visit, Justice Anand appreciated the vocational activities of the inmates of the Institute and urged the management to enhance their wages. He said that mentally ill persons should be cured and rehabilitated thereafter so that they are reintegrated into the mainstream of the society. He also stressed on the need to set up half way homes for the cured persons who have either been deserted by their families or whose family cannot be traced.
On the reports that RINPAS will decline admission to patients from Bihar as the State Government has not paid its dues worth over 32 crores rupees, Dr. Justice Anand said that the Commission is seized of the matter and the patients from Bihar will not be denied admissions for this reason.
The Commission has been supervising the functioning of RINPAS, Ranchi, Gwalior Mansik Arogyashala, Gwalior and the Institute of Mental Health and Hospital, Agra, following a request by the Supreme Court in 1997. Considerable improvements have been noticed in these institutions since the Commission's intervention during the past 7 years.
During his visit, Justice Anand appreciated the vocational activities of the inmates of the Institute and urged the management to enhance their wages. He said that mentally ill persons should be cured and rehabilitated thereafter so that they are reintegrated into the mainstream of the society. He also stressed on the need to set up half way homes for the cured persons who have either been deserted by their families or whose family cannot be traced.
On the reports that RINPAS will decline admission to patients from Bihar as the State Government has not paid its dues worth over 32 crores rupees, Dr. Justice Anand said that the Commission is seized of the matter and the patients from Bihar will not be denied admissions for this reason.
The Commission has been supervising the functioning of RINPAS, Ranchi, Gwalior Mansik Arogyashala, Gwalior and the Institute of Mental Health and Hospital, Agra, following a request by the Supreme Court in 1997. Considerable improvements have been noticed in these institutions since the Commission's intervention during the past 7 years.