Nada India Foundation News update

CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT ...... Nada India is a c o-signing organisation ,  Time to Deliver in 2018: Bolder Commitments and Action Needed to Reverse the Tide of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Disorders Wednesday 6 June 2018  The NCD Alliance and Nada India Foundation  welcome the Report of the WHO Independent High Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), Time To Deliver, launched on Friday 1 June in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of crucial negotiations for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs (UN HLM) taking place in New York this coming September. The Commission's report draws a line in the sand on the need for political leaders to accept that progress to date has been severely inadequate and out of step with the growing burden of NCDs and mental and neurological health. All evidence points to the same unpleasant reality: that if the current pace of progress continues unabated, by 2030 the agreed Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target...

Director, IHBAS,  Delhi Dear Dr.  NG   Desai   ji , I congratulate you and the core committee members for preparing well drafted "Delhi State Mental Health Authority minimum standards for substance use treatment and rehabilitation centres ". T he draft document on minimum standard of care is inclusive and easy to implement. It will help hundreds of voluntary organisations running rehabilitation centres in Delhi to deliver much much needed services to patients and their care givers.  My comments/observations on the draft document are mentioned below (in  bold) :  1. The substance use disorders treatment and rehabilitation centres provides one or more of the following services :  I would suggest to please also add word "residential" services. 2. Acute Detox :  Drug overdose management may be included  (I understand that "Acute care" may include overdose  management  but adding this into service head wil...

Heena peer educator from Nada India giving presentation on challenges faced by patients suffereing from NCD  Workshop on  Needs Assessment – Capacities of Patients to manage Chronic Diseases The workshop was jointly organized by Nada India Foundation & Dakshama  :under the aegis of Healthy India Alliance   on 2nd September 2016 at 10am-5pm Where:ISI Indian Social Institute,10, Institutional Area, Lodi Road, (Behind SaibabaMandir) New Delhi, Delhi 110003. People and Patients have a fundamental right to play a meaningful role in developing healthcare policies and programs as policy decisions, at whatever level they are made, will ultimately affect patients' lives. Engaging patients in health policy decisions helps to ensure that policies reflect patient and caregiver needs, preferences and capabilities, making it an appropriate and cost-effective way to address their needs. Patient-centred healthcare promotes greater patient responsibility and...