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Grindcorner Bali support clothes for Mental Illness

Grindcorner one of the wellknown T-Shirt retail in Bali for the first time open on April 10, 1996 in Jl. Kapten Regug Denpasar. A store without toilets measures just 4 x 4 meters. They only have a show window glass with a metal-made merchandise sticker, plus the tapes thrash metal and death metal VSP made in Malaysia and a few shirts made in HR Production is hanging on the walls full of artificial graffiti. But seeing the reality in Bali has crushed their heart and decided to help the poor with some of their production.

“We feel very moved with the work of Professor Suryani and her team to help the people with mental disorders who were abandoned by our own government for so many years”, said Age Dharmaniaga as the owner of the store after sent some of their production to Suryani Institute headquarter.

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Otsuka’s Director Learned the Balinese Community Mental Health

As a leader in the research and clinical development of healthcare products, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC) was established in January 2007. OPDC was formed by merging two Otsuka organizations – Otsuka Maryland Research Institute, Inc., and OAPI’s Global Development & Commercialization Division – to facilitate the development and subsequent launch of Otsuka’s pharmaceutical products on a global basis. Andy Forbes as the Director of Global Medical Affairs, had the chance to meet Professor Luh Ketut Suryani during his short visit in Bali.

“I think what the Professor been doing for the mentally ill people in Bali is something amazing that we can not do in the West”, said Andy Forbes during the meeting at Kopi Bali House in Sanur.  He said the program should gain more support from the government and not the other way around despite the fact that Bali Governor cut the support 90 percent from their previous support.

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Australian Volunteers International take action for mental illness in Bali

Australian Volunteers International (AVI) is committed to a vision of a peaceful and just world; a sustainable world, where all people have access to the resources they need, the opportunity to achieve their potential, the right to make decisions about the kind of development they want and to participate in the future of their own communities.  As the program is proudly support by AusAID for Australian volunteers who work in a development capacity overseas, the mentally ill people in Bali has bring their attention to take action.

“We got information from our trusted source that a high number of untreated mental health patient has made Professor Suryani to go to communities and provide direct services to the patients”, said John Hunt as Indonesia Country Manager for AVI during his quick visit to Professor Luh Ketut Suryani headquater in Denpasar.

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New Jersey Psychiatrist bring medicine to Paradise

The first line psychiatric treatment for schizophrenia is antipsychotic medication.  These can reduce the positive symptoms of psychosis. Most antipsychotics take around 7–14 days to have their main effect. Currently available antipsychotics fail, however, to significantly ameliorate the negative symptoms, and the improvements on cognition may be attributed to the practice effect. On regards of the patient’s condition in Bali, most of them been chronically ill for many years with no medication. They left untreated by their families, communities and their own government. Only few of them can still survive with the increase cost of medication, while most of them were hide by the society.

“I felt moved to help the mental health condition in Bali after saw it in the internet”, said Dr Ashok Patel as one of 2500 psychiatrists in New Jersey, USA during his  special visit with the family to see Professor Luh Ketut Suryani. The medicines was collected from sample provided by pharmaceutical company and all of them are the newest drugs on the market. The medicines will be use in combination with individual therapy and family-based intervention.

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