‘The mental illness, It is an illness like everyone else, it is not the reason for the people to be excluded from the community the people suffering“, Emphasized Nikitas Kaklamanis, who visited a kiosk of the Hellenic Psychiatric Society at Syntagma Square, on the occasion of World Mental Health Day. The Speaker of the House sent a message that mental sufferers are no different from their fellow humans. “Today we are good, tomorrow we may not be but then we can do well again,” he said.
Nikitas Kaklamanis referred to his tenure at the Ministry of Health, describing as one of his most important works to close two psychiatric hospitals in Chania and Petra Olympus. “I remember the joy of food that was incarcerated for 30 to 35 years and now they live in protected apartments”He stressed and added: “Many of them have entered the production process. They live among us like normal people, because they are normal people. “
The Speaker of the House pledged to parliament It will be a helper in every effort to socialize the sufferers.
Nikita Kaklamanis was welcomed by the President of the Hellenic Psychiatric Society, Professor Vassilis Bozikos, who said that “World Mental Health Day exists to remind us that the rest of the 364 days of the year we should take care of our mental health.” He called on those who have a mental problem to resort to the help of experts in order to help without prejudice and stereotypes.
In the Red Cross stand
The Speaker of the House also visited the Greek Red Cross booth and talked with the President of the EAW, Antonis Avgerinos, underlining Parliament’s willingness to support him in informing actions and prevention of diseases.
The House, in collaboration with the Hellenic Red Cross, which has a mobile unit with a mammographer, PIt is not to visit women’s prisons in order to take preventive control as much as food as they wish.