A Workshop on “Awareness about Suicide Prevention” for Nursing Students was organised by RINPAS in New Academic Building. Dr. Basudeb Das, Dr. Subhash Soren, Dr. Jayati Simlai, Dr. Amool Ranjan Singh, Dr. Masroor Jahan, Dr. Jai Prasad, Dr. P. K. Singh, Dr. Amit Kumar Sharma were present in the programme. Dr Subhas Soren, Addn Prof and Director (In) of Psychiatry, RINPAS started the programme by giving a short introduction on Suicide.
Dr. Basudeb Das, Prof & Director of Psychiatry, C.I.P, Ranchi who was the Chief guest of the programme told that suicide is a global burden and worldwide every 40 second 1 person die by committing suicide. The only way to handle this global burden is to increase awareness about mental health problems in general and suicide in particular. He said that generally people with mental health issues do not seek help from mental health professionals so it is high time that initiative should be taken to develop a proactive care model. He also discussed common myths and various warning signs related to suicide. He encouraged the participants to participate actively in the workshop as they are an important part of patient health care. He ended the talk by emphasizing that although we should try our best to prevent as many suicides as possible but even saving one life is important.
Dr. Masroor Jahan gave a vote of thanks and invited all the guests and participants to high tea after which the workshop was started. Nursing students of Florence College of Nursing, Irba, Ranchi will be participating in the workshop. In this 3 day workshop topics like epidemiology of suicide, suicide risk assessment, factors of suicide, tele- counselling, myths related to suicide, legal and psychological aspects related to suicide , preventive and management strategies will be covered by faculties from RINPAS and CIP.