WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY

10.10.2018

A GUEST LECTURE WAS ORGANISED  BY STUDENT COUNSELLOR NEW HORIZON PRE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, MS HARINI GOVINDAN, ON ACCOUNT OF WORLD MENTAL  HEALTH DAY ON TENTH  OF OCTOBER ,2018, AT  NHCK AUDITORIUM, WITH THE THEME , SUBSTANCE ABUSE – AWARENESS AND PREVENTION.

DOCTORS SPECIALIZED IN ADDICTIVE PSYCHIATRY FROM NIMHANS, BENGALURU, WERE INVITED TO ADDRESS THE PREUNIVERSITY STUDENTS ABOUT THE HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS OF DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO.  THE PROGRAMME  BEGAN WITH AN INVOCATION  AND WAS INAGUARATED BY PRINCIPAL OF NHPU, DR SUNITHA HANGAL,GUEST SPEAKERS DR JAYKRISHNAN MENON, DR DIPTHADI MUKHERJEE, ADMINISTRATOR OF NEW HORIZON COLLEGE , KASTURINAGAR MS GRACE APARNA, AND HEAD OF COMMERCE DEPARTMENT MS MOHANA. OUR PRINCIPAL  DELIVERED THE WELCOME NOTE FOLLOWED BY THE GUEST LECTURE.

OUR STUDENTS WERE BRIEFED ABOUT THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRUGS BOTH ILLICT AND NON ILLICIT AND THE SIDE EFFECTS OF THESE SUBSTANCES ON THE MENTAL AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AND SUBSEQUENT DAMAGE  ON BRAIN DEVELOPMENT  OF ADOLOSCENTS.

THE EVENT COORDINATOR AND STUDENT COUNSELLOR MS HARINI GOVINDAN DELIVERED THE VOTE OF THANKS WITH AN APPEAL TO ALL THE STUDENTS TO SPREAD AWARENESS AND PREVENTION OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE TO BUILD A HAPPY HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NATION  .