About 900 residents of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) are getting disability identity cards. The work on registering the patients with the State government and getting them the Centre’s Unique Disability ID (UDID) have taken off.
IMH, along with the District Differently Abled Welfare Office, has launched steps to issue disability certificates and register them for the Government of India UDID cards.
“For the first time, we have initiated the process to get ID for every individual at IMH. There are many patients who come in as wandering mentally ill, with no relations and on reception orders. Many with intellectual disabilities do not know their names and addresses. So, once we get them disability IDs, we can get them Aadhaar cards as the next step. This will help them get benefits under government schemes once they improve and get discharged,” said P. Poorna Chandrika, director of IMH.
As part of this initiative, a medical camp to assess the disability and percentage of…