Healthday: mental patients free treatment to look forward to

October 10,, is world mental health day. The topic is "bear joint responsibility, promote mental health". Beginning next year, registered permanent residence in changsha city of mental patients will be hoping to get the free treatment. (October 9 "xiaoxiang morning paper")

According to not complete count, our country at least 16 million mental patients, each year are still being made new mental patients. 80% had a mental illness family is difficult family, some even are extremely needy, because they cannot afford to pay high medical costs and give up treatment, patients to treatment rates low, only 15% of the patients who receive treatment, as well as a material found only 3.67% of the patients of standardization in the hospital. Many mental patients especially those violent mental patients, in the streets and social, unattended, scattered in the society a "ticking time bomb", constitutes a threat to public security.

For mental patients, the social individual and family often can't assume the responsibility of treatment and supervision. A mental illness in the family to most of the state, and the supervision of mental illness family even its own security also cannot be fully protect, much less regulation. In this case, is funded by the government to mental patients free treatment, this not only is to mental patients humanistic concern, but also of the social and public safety is responsible for the government's responsibility, which reflects the bear. On one hand, from the point of view of human rights, through the government free treatment make a mental illness to return to the society with normal life, like, reduce the burden of mental illness, family members to mental patients rights and interests protection; On the other hand, can avoid some "armed madman" in the streets and cause hurt, murder and other accidents happen for the public, built a security fence.

Of course, in the long run to solve a mental illness problems, the key is to speed up the pace of legislation. The mental health act "beginning from 1985 legislation, and still failed to come. The lack of legal system, on the one hand, lead many should be treated patients because of unable to pay the medical treatment cost, not treated, or by his family in the street, or too long, become scattered in the society "ticking time bomb", constitutes a threat to public security. On the other hand, lead to a disease or need not forced, be treated with the conflict of interest people sent to a mental hospital, bear loss of personal freedom, was forced to accept this should not accept the pain of the treatment. What is more, psychiatric has become some local officials to suppress the appeal, appeal means, be violated the rights of tool!

Author hope to changsha this good practices can be popularized to the whole country, also hope to relevant departments can speed up the pace of the mental health legislation and to protect the rights and interests of mental illness.

SunRui burning (civil servants)