Médecins Sans Frontières - Providing Mental Health care in Srinagar, Kashmir (INT)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB171072

Date taken / Date Recorded 04/10/2023 3:15 PM

Country India

Commissioning section MSF-INDIA

Photographer / videographer / producer Garvit Nangia

Copyright Garvit Nangia/MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 3m17s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 290.33 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Embargoed until October 8th, 2023

00:00 – 00:06 Text/VO – “Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing free counselling services in Kashmir, India since 2001.”

00:06 – 00:21 Text/VO – “Following a mental health survey in 10 districts of Kashmir in 2015, there was unanimous opinion among the valley stakeholders that mental health services should be decentralized through the District Mental Health Program (DMHP) to improve access to care at community level.”

00:22 – 00:37 Byte - Christoph Friedl, Project Coordinator & Mental Health Activity Manager – “MSF then sat together with the MoH and a five pillar concept was established. One of those pillars is our face to face counseling. So we have counselors and clinical psychologist in our clinics, in the hospitals”

00:37 – 00:43 Byte - Farhana Yaseen, Clinical Psychologist – “where we educate the population about the any mental health illness.”

00:43 – 00:49 Byte – Nusrat, Counsellor Educator, JLNM – “We facilitate things for them, we work together and that's what we make them understand.”

00:49 – 00:58 Byte - Ajaz Ahmed, Mental Health Supervisor – “And then how they can manage those things, how they can involve the family into the process and how they can go towards recovery.

00:59 – 01:11 Byte - Christoph Friedl, Project Coordinator & Mental Health Activity Manager – “So we have our counselors in the big hospitals and also in PHCs, in Primary Healthcare Centers, which are smaller facilities in the villages in the north, in Sopore area and in the south in Tral area.”

01:13 – 01:19 Byte - Christoph Friedl, Project Coordinator & Mental Health Activity Manager – “Another pillar that was established was a community - based approach.”

01:19 – 01:40 Byte – Sabrina, Health Promoter Supervisor – “Mostly people are not that much aware here, plus there is a stigma, associated with this illness. So through psycho educating people, through reaching more and more people with different methods, be it community presentation, oral, visual, one-to-one interaction, door-to-door visits, meeting them, training them (through) sensitisation programs.”

01:41 – 01:54 Byte - Christoph Friedl, Project Coordinator & Mental Health Activity Manager – “It's more like a bottom up approach which reaches much more people and catches those who might already experience distress before something... before they elaborate a mental health disorder.”

01:54 – 02:02 Byte – Nusrat, Counsellor Educator, JLNM – “I think that is the best way because all the time people cannot reach us, we have to come out of our clinics and reach people.”

02:03 – 02:10 Byte - Christoph Friedl, Project Coordinator & Mental Health Activity Manager – “And then we have something very unique, the mobile response team. There is a driver, a community mental health worker and a counselor.”

02:10 – 02:16 Byte – Dr Arshad Hussain, Project Coordinator Support – “Their main role is to visit those areas which.. which are actually.. inaccessible,”

02:16 – 02:25 Byte – Mudasir Mushtaq, Counsellor Educator – “or where we don’t have any activities at the moment, where we are not present at PHCs or at district hospitals or where people have no knowledge about this distress” Person standing next to Mudasir is Qurat, Community Mental Health Worker.

02:25 – 02:55 Byte - Christoph Friedl, Project Coordinator & Mental Health Activity Manager – “We try to go there, in those regions in Kashmir, and support directly in their homes. And besides, of those three models of care, we do, we try to raise awareness through different activities and we also try to increase the capacity of our MoH, of our Ministry of Health colleagues in the hospital, where we invite them for discussions, for trainings and share the knowledge that we have in our project.”

02:55 – 03:08 Byte – Dr Arshad Hussain, Project Coordinator Support – “I think this model looks a very important model in current scenario, especially in those areas where actually (mental) healthcare facilities are lacking (limited) and mental health experts are not available.”

03:09 – 03:16 Text – In 2022, across six districts of Kashmir
12,062 mental health counselling sessions provided
3,547 new patients enrolled in our program
17,676 psycho-educational sessions conducted at community level.

03:18 – 03:20 End with MSF logo

Special instructions Embargoed until October 8th, 2023