MENTAL HEALTH is getting more attention today than it used to, including the mental health of new mothers. Many cases of new mothers experiencing baby blues and even postpartum depression (post partum depression) who then experience or commit violence.
Perinatal can be defined as the time from early pregnancy to regarding one year following giving birth. The results of the study showed the prevalence of postpartum depression was 25.4%.
Therefore, the National Mental Health Center (PKJN) of Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital launched the Perinatal Mental Health Center to commemorate its 142nd Anniversary.
“In the past, we often felt that mental hospitals were only for those with mental disorders, but look, now they can even develop into Perinatal Mental Health Centers. We can see that service innovation is important. We can no longer feel that mental hospitals will not develop because of the stigma,” said the Director of Health Service Governance at the Ministry of Health, Sunarto at the PKJN Marzoeki Mahdi Hospital, Bogor, Wednesday (10/7/2024).
Sunarto added that PKJN RS Marzoeki Mahdi has succeeded in developing services that were previously unimaginable as a mental hospital, by integrating psychiatric health services with maternal and child services that can reduce maternal and infant mortality rates and stunting incidents in Indonesia.
“All of our friends at Marzoeki Mahdi have the potential to develop services that we never thought of before, Mom, have you ever imagined that there used to be Perinatal Mental Health? Look now, we never imagined that Marzoeki Mahdi as a mental health hospital might participate in services for stunting prevention,” he said.
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The President Director of PKJN RS Marzoeki Mahdi, Nova Riyanti Yusuf, appreciated the achievements that have been able to improve various innovations in accordance with the transformation of the Ministry of Health’s vertical hospitals with benchmarking and cooperation with sister hospitals. Several MOUs have been signed with foreign institutions.
“With King’s College London, we have developed the Perinatal Mental Health Center service. Hopefully it can be replicated nationally as a specific health programme Maternal and Child Health Clinic which is part of the Model Network of Community-Based Mental Health Services framework according to the WHO World Mental Health Report 2022,” said Nova.
He added that mental hospitals are transforming into general hospitals with mental health as their main focus, so that mental health care no longer only focuses on mental health that is not integrated with physical health services.
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The next stage with King’s College London will be a survey of mental health problems in pregnant women in the catchment area of PKJN RSMM. 2 questionnaire instruments from King’s College London will be validated and used, PKJN RSMM will embrace general practitioners and midwives in health centers as well as communities to play an active role.
In PKJN RSMM itself, there is already a PONEK room in the IGD, a delivery room, an operating room for Sectio Cesarea, a perinatology room, which is equipped with specialist doctors. (H-2)
“What is still being developed is the Mother Baby Unit which has been witnessed directly by the RSMM PKJN Team and the Director General of Health Services of the Ministry of Health in London, England. The Mother Baby Unit was previously developed by the National Institute of Mental Health Sri Lanka with assistance from King’s College London,” said Nova.
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The collaboration with King’s College London will also open up opportunities to explore the development of the “Digital Mental Health” course so that people who care regarding mental health and want to help through various social media platforms can have adequate mental health literacy. Discussions have been held with King’s College London’s Global Business Development.
Another collaboration that has been fostered by PKJN RSMM is the MOU with Sawa Hospital Japan for the development of the Integrated Geriatric Center that already exists at PKJN RSMM and will be optimized into a Dementia Center.
Through an MOU with the Institute of Mental Health Singapore, PKJN RSMM is trying to design a mental health unit that must be present in 837 government general hospitals throughout Indonesia. The unit includes the Short-Stay Unit, handling acute cases that require crisis intervention within 72 hours. (H-2)
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