STATE TIMES NEWS Bhadarwah: Promoting mental wellbeing of inmates, prison staff and to educate them to how to deal with stress beside motivating them to stay away from drug addiction, Jail authorities in collaboration with GMC Doda organised a day long workshop at District Jail Bhadarwah. The workshop was primarily aimed at to educate the inmates about the ill effects of narcotic drugs, beside how to deal with stress naturally without falling prey to any kind of addiction in difficult circumstances. A team of doctors and Psychiatrist from GMC Doda led by Dr Ashraf Ali Khan, HOD Biochemistry Department interacted with 162 inmates lodged in District Jail Bhadarwah beside a visual slide show depicting the ill effects of drug addiction, ways and means to come out of it and how to manage stress was also presented during the workshop. Later a question answer session was also held to clear the doubts and answer the queries of the inmates by the concerned specialists. Jail authorities expressed their gratitude to the Department for organizing such an awareness programme, which is the need of the hour and urged for conducting more such programmes in near future. Superintendent District Jail Bhadarwah Mushtaq Malla said that the objective of the workshop is to motivate the inmates to never get tempted to fell prey to the drugs beside they were also educated to how to deal with stress.
