Few days back on a fine evening two policeman brought a wandering
person to the hospital with a magistrate order under the request of his
mother. The main complaint was he was very aggressive and uncontrollable
by others . On examination he was irritable and not so cooperative. He
was advised admission. I asked the policemen to take him to ward but
the person denied to go to ward.He
refused and stood ground there for around 5 hours. In the meantime i
noticed the two police personnel getting very restless and trying to
tell something.
One of the policeman silently came to me and told "sir
we can control any murderer or a smuggler but with this person we are
very afraid.Sir he is very angry.He may hurt us sir. Give him some drugs
and sent him off. Why are u admitting him?". Finally the mentally ill
person obeyed to the words of the doctors and nursing staff and he came
to ward. He was started on medical treatment.The next day when we went
for rounds we tried to to talk to the person.Suddenly a policeman came
running and told "sir dont talk to him he may hurt you". I told to the
the policeman that this mentally ill person is not harmful than
anyother so called normal person. Well i knew one thing for sure. These
police men may have been trained to deal with criminals but when it
comes to dealing with persons who are mentally ill they had zero
knowledge.Well i think as a public personnel all police personnel should
be given a outline about mental health and how to handle mentally ill
persons.
"LET'S MAKE A DIFFERENCE"
Dr.Bevinsathya..
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