{"id":924815,"date":"2026-10-12T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924815\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:30:09","slug":"pgi-walkathon-shines-spotlight-on-mental-health-awareness-chandigarh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924815\/","title":{"rendered":"PGI walkathon shines spotlight on mental health awareness | Chandigarh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/11oct_pgi-walkathon_1jpg.jpg\" alt=\"PGI walkathon shines spotlight on mental health awareness\" title=\"Participants take part in a mental health awareness walkathon organised by PGI from Kairon Block to Sukhna Lake on Sunday to mark World Mental Health Day\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Participants take part in a mental health awareness walkathon organised by PGI from Kairon Block to Sukhna Lake on Sunday to mark World Mental Health Day Chandigarh: Around 500 participants, including healthcare workers, faculty members, students and caregivers, took part in a walkathon from PGIMER to Sukhna Lake Sunday as PGI marked World Mental Health Day.Organised by the department of psychiatry through the Drug De-addiction and Treatment Centre (DDTC), the event was held around this year\u2019s theme, \u201cLived experiences heard: Real voices, real change\u201d, highlighting the importance of giving a voice to people living with mental health conditions.The walkathon was flagged off by Dr SK Mattoo, former head of PGI\u2019s psychiatry department. Faculty members from several departments joined the initiative, emphasising a multidisciplinary approach to mental healthcare.A street play by faculty and students of the National Institute of Nursing Education (NINE) at Sukhna Lake focused on mental health awareness, stigma reduction and the importance of seeking timely help.Speaking on the occasion, Prof Subho Chakrabarti, head of the department of psychiatry, stressed the need to promote empathy, awareness and support for people facing mental health challenges. The event also highlighted the objectives of the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, including awareness about substance-use disorders, prevention and access to treatment and rehabilitation services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Participants take part in a mental health awareness walkathon organised by PGI from Kairon Block to Sukhna Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[492457,64,63,171940,164147,492456,492454,492458,492464,492455,96547,492466,137,98089,492452,514,22828,34756,74387,515,52065,492463,492460,20975,492448,492449,492450,7097,492459,190635,492465,342383,492461,5327,261008,492451,492462,2284,492453,136046],"class_list":["post-924815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-lived-experiences-heard-real-voices","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-caregivers","tag-chandigarh","tag-ddtc","tag-department-of-psychiatry","tag-dr-sk-mattoo","tag-drug-de-addiction","tag-drug-de-addiction-and-treatment-centre","tag-empathy","tag-faculty-members","tag-health","tag-healthcare-workers","tag-kairon-block","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-awareness","tag-mental-health-stigma","tag-mental-healthcare","tag-mentalhealth","tag-multidisciplinary-approach","tag-nasha-mukt-bharat-abhiyaan","tag-national-institute-of-nursing-education","tag-nine","tag-pgi","tag-pgimer","tag-postgraduate-institute-of-medical-education-and-research","tag-prevention","tag-prof-subho-chakrabarti","tag-real-change","tag-rehabilitation-services","tag-stigma-reduction","tag-street-play","tag-students","tag-substance-use-disorders","tag-sukhna-lake","tag-timely-help","tag-treatment","tag-walkathon","tag-world-mental-health-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}