North Sumatra Hospital Prepares 100 Beds For Napza Users

Drivers passing in front of the Mental Hospital (RSJ) Prof. Dr. M Ildream of North Sumatra Province, Saturday (20/5/2023). (ANTARA/M Sahbainy Nasution)

MEDAN - Mental Hospital (RSJ) Prof. Dr. M Ildream North Sumatra Province (North Sumatra) will create a strategic program for additional rooms and 100 beds for the misuse of Napza.

"This regional strategic program is in accordance with the direction of the Governor of North Sumatra, Edy Rahmayadi, for additional rooms and 100 beds at the RSJ which are used for the rehabilitation of abuse of Napza," said Deputy General Director of RSJ Prof. Dr. M IIdream of North Sumatra Province Aris Yudhariansyah in Medan as reported by ANTARA, Saturday, May 20.

He said that the construction had been physically completed to be placed by the abusers. It remains only in the inauguration of the construction that will be carried out in the near future.

"The priority of rehabilitation at the RSJ is that the abusers of Napza are residents of North Sumatra, but because this is national, we still serve anyone who is sent, especially shipments from BNN and others," said Aris.

Regarding the budget and costs for the misuse of Napza which will be rehabilitated, Aris said it would be borne by the government through the North Sumatra Provincial Government Kesbangpol.

"From Kesbangpol budgeting will be given. In the future, narcotics users will also be made a physical program, such as other mental disorders that not only treat physical but mentally," he said.

Meanwhile, the number of mental disorders cases at RSJ Prof. Dr M IIdream North Sumatra Province is currently 36,146 people from the age of 15 years and over. North Sumatra is in fourth position under the Provinces of Central Java, East Java and West Java

The districts/cities that are the largest cases of mental disorders are Medan, Deli Serdang, Simalungun, Asahan and several other districts. This government-owned hospital also created a program that was named

Elimination of Intellectual Disability (EDI) as an effort to suppress stigma in society about people with mental disorders.

This program aims to make the mention more subtle than ODGJ or mental disorders in order to reduce the negative stigma.*