Depression and Suicide Prevention Program March 2018

With the aim of bringing awareness regarding Depression and Suicide Prevention under National Health Mission. A Targeted Intervention Program was held in all the institutes as well as the Hospital of the Goenka Campus for Students and Staff Members as well. Series of Lectures were held containing agendas to deal with stress and depression to prevent suicide. According to an estimate 80% of suicides are avoidable but due to lack of awareness we are not able to prevent them from happening. Importance of Psychiatry in solution of such problem was also explained in the lecture to eradicate the misconceptions among people regarding depression and other mental illness.