Thursday February 10, 2011 .-
Permanent Bureau was formed Mental Health Intersectoral
The current president of the Special Committee on Monitoring of Act No. 448 of Mental Health, María Elena Naddeo inaugurated the operation of the Permanent Inter-Sectoral Committee on Mental Health, made up of different political, academic, professional, and social. One of its objectives: to create a space for debate and joint action of coordination and mobilization towards meeting the Mental Health Act for the City of Buenos Aires N º 448, as well as their compatibility and effectuation with the recently passed National Law No. 26,657.
Legislator Buenos Aires said that "without opening hospital beds in general hospitals and halfway houses tied to the old paradigm will continue to mental hospitals." The legal and political support expressed in this new national legislation becomes a powerful mandate to advance the transformation of the mental health system which we struggle for decades without delay and without excuses budget, "says the text of the declaration constitutes .
and detail:" In this particular context is critical that the City of Buenos Aires, with the strong recoil caution in the management of social policies, the various situations of authoritarianism, trimming and barriers to access of the population to exercise their rights, we consider it necessary to define a sustainable plan of action discussed at all levels "
. Among the central themes and priority lines of action clearly identified by both laws are: asylums banish generating logical alternative programs to institutionalization, build new devices and programs to ensure an intervention model based on the interdisciplinary and recognition of all mental health workers. In addition, claim a competitive and transparent system that strictly observes the laws in force and to recognize the legally enshrined rights and access to positions of leadership to all professionals with bachelor's degree in mental health.
The board is composed of: the Mental Health Commission of Legislature of Buenos Aires, the Asoc.de Psychologists (APBA), Professional Assoc Alvear Hospital, Tobar Garcia, Borda and Moyano, Mental Health Centres No. 1 and No. 3, Do Institutions of professionals in mental health of the CABA, Association of Psychologists of the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, University Chairs, Front embroidery artist, Commission ATE Policy, Mental Health Assoc Arg and different political blocs of the Legislature of Buenos Aires, among others.