Psychiatric
Clinic on Monday & Wednesday at 9
AM at Teghari, Madanpur, Dist.Nadia |
Eye-Clinic
on 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month at 9 AM |
Postal address of Clinic & Home |
| Manas,
Vill. Teghari, P.O. Madanpur, Dist. Nadia -741245, West
Bengal, INDIA |
How
to reach: Get down at Madanpur Rly Stn. Take
Riksha or Cycle-van or walk for about 15 min to reach
Manas Clinic at Teghari. |
Registered
Address: MANAS,
C/O Amal Som, P-239A Kimber Street, Kolkata -700017,
INDIA |
Rgn.
No.S/35603 of 1982-83
of 1982-83 under West Bengal,
Act. No. XXVI of 1961 |
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"Manas
since its birth is trying to organise the families
of the mentally ills for a joint endeavour to
emerge as a self-sustaining group. Of course,
these overstressed families cannot exclusively
on their own grow as a self-help group unless
vigorously and consistently supported by other
members of the society at large and mental health
professionals in particular. Manas is thus a dynamic
endeavour in which - the families of mental patients,
ex-patients, their friends and social service
oriented people from almost all walks of life,
the honest professionals in the mental health
field have joined hands to provide the requisite"milieu"
for a richer, saner and more healthy lives for
all -not only for the stigmatised mental patients
and their families." (Quote from the book
'Ghareo Nahe Paareo Nahe' -by Amal Som) |
As
a step towards fufilment of our dream a land measuring
about 2 acre was purchased at Madanpur in Nadia
district and a building was constructed from the
fund collected as donation from friends and wellwishers.
Since the building was envisaged as a short stay
home we named it as "Khanika". Here,
the families with mentally distressed members
as well as our friends and donors may stay in
an ASHRAM-like spirit. |
Psychiatry
Clinic ¤ Councelling ¤ Dispensing
¤ Optometry Clinic ¤ Recreational
Activities ¤ Foster Home ¤ Arousing
public awareness to dispel misconception about
mental disease ¤ Socialization of depressed
and mentally ill persons ¤ Training psychiatric
social volunteers and nurses ¤ Developing
Resource Center ¤ R & D study on
early detection of problem in the community
¤ Agriculture ¤ Animal farming
¤ Handicrafts ¤ Making of domestic products ¤ ¤ ¤
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Out
of concern for the helpless mental patients, their
families, persons from various walks of life,
namely, teachers, students, physicians, journalists,
social workers, people science activist, human
right activist and many other like-minded people
joined in the initiative. The common ground for
initiating this program was that either they themselves
have suffered from some form of mental distress
in certain phase of their life, or have seen or
known someone suffering from such diseases. A
Society initially named as 'SRIJONI' was formed
on 21.11.1981 and was later formally registered
in the name of 'MANAS' under Societies Reg. Act.
No. XXVI of 1961, West Bengal on 17.4.1982.
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Executive
Committee of Manas for 2005-07
Jyotirmoy
Samajdar (President), Amit Kanti Sarkar (Secretary),
Mrinal Kanti Biswas (Treasurer), Amal Som, Avijit
Pal, Bhaskar Banerjee, Bharati Mukherjee, Chhanda
Roy, Dipti Mukhopadhaya Som, Jaharlal Roy, Paban Mukhopadhyay,
Rabin Chakraborty, Ratan Chandra Dey, Sachchidananda
Chaudhuri, Shipra Sil
Psychiatrists:
Dr Jyotirmoy Samajdar, Dr Kunal Dhar, Dr Dipankar
Bag
General
Physician: Dr Narayan Guha Ray
Psychiatric
Social Worker & volunteer : Apurba Majumdar,
Avijit Pal, Prabir Sen, Sagar, Sakkar Ali, Shipra
Sil, Shraboni Boiragya, Sujit Roy, Sumit Chakraborty,
Sunanda Pal, Tapan Haldar
Optometric
Clinic is run with the help of "ARGUS",
a friendly organisation at Khardaha, North 24
Parganas
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| Activities
of Manas at Teghari |
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Registering
name at the clinic |
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Doctors
at work |
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Volunteers
in the dispensary |
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Doctors
along with volunteers |
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Optometry
clinic |
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Trainee
nurses from hospitals |
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Supervising
paddy field |
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Looking
after plants |
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After-harvest
works |
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