REHABILITATION OF A MENTALLY DISABLED PATIENT
Sarika Jayant Patil, Nirmale D. M.* and Prathamesh Subhash Kore
ABSTRACT
Rehabilitation is the process of helping a person who has suffered an
illness or injury restore lost skills so regain maximum self-sufficiency.
Rehabilitation of mentally discharged person is one of the most
important social work. Some of the rehabilitation services extended to
patient include aftercare and resettlement for long-stay patient jobs for
the mentally disabled persons, sponsorship programmers, social skill
development programs and other related services for the mentally
disabled persons. Rehabilitation of patient with mental retardation and
mentally retarded offenders in India For the above purpose
Government of India set a council for it called “The Rehabilitation
Council of India (RCI)”. It was established as a registered society in 1986. It was set up with
a view to regulate and monitor services given to persons with disability to standardize syllabi
and to maintain a central rehabilitation register of all qualified professionals and personal
working in the field of rehabilitation and special education.The act also prescribes punitive
services to persons with disability
Keywords: RCI, CVS, COPD.
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