The First Lady’s Office has announced a new program for mentally ill and homeless people. The Project for Psychosocial Rehabilitation of People with Mental Disabilities and the Homeless is aimed at helping these people and restoring their human dignity. The First Lady’s Office has taken on the responsibility of following up on the results and presenting them in quarterly reports. The First Lady’s Office will work closely with the Ministry of Public Health, National District municipality, the Promese community dispensary program and the National Council for People with Special Needs (Conadis). The National District municipality has donated a property in Gualey where the project will be located. Specialist project coordinator for the First Lady’s Office, Martha Rodriguez, says it is a pilot program that seeks to provide a psychosocial focus for rehabilitating homeless and mentally ill people. The program aims to provide hospital daycare to people who enter the program on their own initiative or are sent by others. The patients will receive medical and cognitive evaluations and specialists will recommend a recovery program after the diagnosis.
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