{"id":253207,"date":"2023-07-24T18:55:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=253207"},"modified":"2023-07-24T18:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:25:54","slug":"india-crosses-a-significant-milestone-for-the-national-tele-mental-health-programme-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-crosses-a-significant-milestone-for-the-national-tele-mental-health-programme-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"India crosses a significant milestone for The National Tele Mental Health Programme of India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>India crosses a significant milestone for The National Tele Mental Health Programme of India<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB on 22nd July 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tele MANAS Initiative has reached a significant milestone. The toll-free service has received over 2,00,000 calls from various parts of the nation since the launch portraying a consistently progressive trend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Tele MANAS Initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253208\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/flowchart.png?resize=300%2C165&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/flowchart.png?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/flowchart.png?resize=1024%2C563&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/flowchart.png?resize=768%2C422&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/flowchart.png?w=1078&amp;ssl=1 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) initiative was launched by the Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare during October 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To provide free tele-mental health services all over the country round the clock, particularly catering to people in remote or under-served areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The initiative maintains anonymity of the callers, thereby reducing the stigma generally surrounding mental health issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Nodal center<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initiative includes a network of 23 tele-mental health centers of excellence, with <\/span><b>National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) being the nodal center and International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIITB) providing technology support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tele-MANAS is organized in two tier systems: Tier 1 comprises state Tele-MANAS cells which include trained counselors and mental health specialists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Tier 2 comprises specialists at District Mental Health Programme (DMHP)\/Medical College resources for physical consultation and\/or e-Sanjeevani for audio visual consultation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia crosses a significant milestone for The National Tele Mental Health Programme of India\u201d\u00a0 published in PIB on 22nd July 2023. What is the News? Tele MANAS Initiative has reached a significant milestone. The toll-free service has received over 2,00,000 calls from various parts of the nation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-crosses-a-significant-milestone-for-the-national-tele-mental-health-programme-of-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India crosses a significant milestone for The National Tele Mental Health Programme of India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-253207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698437606},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}