Dec 24, 2015
Total population: 2,7 million Total territory: 1,5 million sq.km Density: 1,8 sq.km per person Main survival meaning: animal
agriculture 2/3 of the total population –
Nomadic One third live in Ulaanbaatar,
capital city
BAYANULGII
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GOBI ALTAI BAYANHONGOR
OVORHANGAI
ARHANGAI
HUVSGUL
SELENGE
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HENTII
DORNOD
SUHBAATAR
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2005 2009
2008 2010
Implementation: Multi-sectoral level Approach: Human rights based
approach Partners: Ministry of Health; Ministry of Education; Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor; Ministry of Construction and City
Planning; National Commission of Human Rights; National Authority for the Children;
There are over 23,443 people with mental illness in Mongolia /according to CBR survey 2008: Place: 6/;
32% of them live in urban area; 68% of them live in rural area; There is a National Center for
Mental Health in Ulaanbaatar city and Mental health department in each Province Hospital;
Around 70 – 80% is discriminated; Stay at home; No jobs; Bad attitude from the general
populations; Feeling alone; They are treated as someone who
are need to be stayed far from the people;
No understanding; Don’t believe them that their
family member can do something;
Get bored; No active; Don’t know how to deal with
their children;
We have two good examples: Hovd province (1400 km in the
west) Suhbaatar province (600 km in
the east)
CBR - 1998 Total population: 85897 Number of PWD: 4310 Number of persons with mental
illness: 210 40% live in the province center
Micro project to integrate persons with mental illness in the community was iitiated in 2003 with the financial support of AIFO;
Project venue: Mental Health department at the Regional Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Hovd aimag
Beneficiaries: 12 patients
Vegetable (potato) growing; “Ger” Canteen at the Aimag
Hospital; Producing felt products like
slippers; Beads products; Knitting; Stitching;
Family members appreciated the action and started to help to the doctor;
Patients’ disease severity is getting improved;
The repetition of the disease is getting far;
The group had owned their land for vegetable cultivation;
CBR - 2008 (EU co-funded project);
Total population: 53785 Number of PWD: 2113 Number of persons with mental
illness: 90 60 % live in the aimag center
A micro project to integrate persons with mental disorders in the community was started in 2008 with the financial support of AIFO and EU project;
Project venue: Mental Health department at the Province Hospital
Beneficiaries: 15 patients
Producing safety waste box for the use of hospital using the old boxes of milk;
Making a bed sheet and pillow using the residual cotton;
The 15 patients are meeting in every Monday, Wednesday and Friday regularly.
The patients help the medical staff to make Safety waste box. Up-to-date the patients had made 50 safety boxes.
The Province hospital buys the boxes. One box costs 450 tugriks (0,25 euro) and earned 22500 tugriks (12 euro).
Very important: they share their life experience and they are feeling much relaxing.