Department of Behavioural Sciences & De-addiction at Dr. KM. Cherian Institute of Medical Sciences, Chengannur, organized the National Seminar – inPSYght’25: “Addiction and Borderline Personality Disorder – Crossroads”.
The event was inaugurated by the Mahatma Gandhi University Vice Chancellor, Dr. C. T. Aravindakumar. Maldives Consul General Ms. Aminath Shifana was the Guest of Honour at the event, where Dr. P. S. V. N. Sharma, Chief Psychiatrist of Manipal Hospital, delivered the keynote address.
Presiding over the function, KMC Hospital’s Managing Director Rev. Fr. Dr. Alexander Koodarathil stated that the de-addiction treatment initiatives currently being carried out in the Maldives in collaboration with the government will soon be expanded to other countries as well. He also mentioned that the hospital has a dedicated clinic for children’s mental health issues and de-addiction treatment.
At the seminar, attended by nearly two hundred mental health professionals, research papers were presented by experts including Prof. Dr. Varghese Punnoose (Principal, Government Medical College, Kottayam), Dr. Suma Udupa (Manipal Hospital), Dr. Radhika M.S. (Antara Hospital, Kolkata), Sr. Dr. Johan Chunkapura (Principal, TRADA, Kottayam), Psy. Priya Varghese, Dr. Manju Peethambaran, Dr. Jayashankar G., Psy. George Mathew, Dr. Anoop. G, and Dr. Ruben John (Psychiatrist, KMC Hospital, Chengannur).
