The Regional Human Rights Commission (CRDH) of Oujda-Figuig organised, on Saturday, in Oujda, a study day under the theme “Mental health and human rights, for a new approach to mental health issues in the Oriental region.”
The organisation of this meeting is part of the Commission's programme for the year 2014 and the commitment of the regional commissions to the implementation of the recommendations of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) report on “mental health and human rights, urgent need for a new policy.”
This meeting aims to open a responsible and sincere dialogue between institutional actors involved in the mental health sector, neurologists, professionals, and associative actors, with a view to establishing a new approach at the regional level focused on mental health issues which “fall under the problems diagnosed and treated by the CNDH report.”
Speaking on this occasion, the President of the CRDH Oujda-Figuig, Mohamed Amarti, stressed that this meeting also aims to raise awareness among civil society “given the existence of numerous cases of patients who suffer from discrimination, exclusion, misunderstanding, and mistreatment.”
He also stressed the need to multiply efforts and cooperation between the different actors to put in place a new approach for mental health issues and to take into consideration the principles of human rights in the treatment of the different problems and dysfunctions from which the mental health sector suffers, as much at the level of hospitals, as prisons, retirement homes, child protection centres, and within society in general.
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During this meeting, which also constituted an occasion for dialogue and the exchange of points of view on the adequate means to resolve the dysfunctions that the mental health sector is experiencing in the region, the conclusions of the CNDH on this issue in Morocco were presented, which recommend the implementation of a special and clear public policy for mental health.
This meeting, which saw the participation of specialists in the field, was also marked by the examination of a series of themes focusing on “psychological care in the private sector and cooperation with the public sector,” “psychological care, state of play and perspectives,” and “mental health and legal protection.”
