FEAFES qualifies as a “pioneer” Asturian mental health care system.

-the Spanish Confederation of groupings of family members and persons with Mental illness shows its support to the Asturian model developed in recent years

-from FEAFES highlighted the attention at EU level as the great achievement of the Asturian model

– according to the President of FEAFES, Avilés and Gijón models are the most effective and environmentally friendly with the rights of persons with disease and family ”

Madrid, 2011-September the Spanish Confederation of groupings of family members and persons with Mental illness (FEAFES) has sought to show their support for the mental health care model developed in Asturias in the past years, which has been described as a pioneer ” within European.

The FEAFES Confederation, comprising 285 associations of people with mental illness and family in all Spain, wanted to respond as well to recent statements by Oviedo psychiatrist Julio Bobes in a regional daily newspaper which criticized the current system of care Asturias as an antiquated model was sorry ”, using unclear arguments to qualify it for Cuban inspiration ”.

FEAFES, José María Sánchez Monge, President indicated that care in mental health of the Principality are not perfect ”, but suggests the merit of having got much of the resources for people with mental illness to develop at Community level ”thus reducing the number of admissions in line with the objectives and strategies of the European region health world Organization and the European Commission referred to by the same Bobes.

FEAFES thus expressed its concern that the next Chief of service of Psychiatry of the Hospital Universitario Central Asturias (HUCA), and figure of recognized prestige at the State level, does not recognize these merits and want to introduce another different model in mental health. If you want to bet on a European model – as noted Mr. Bobes in his interview – the first thing to do is to fulfill the strategy on Mental health of the Ministry of health, adopted by all the autonomous communities. This means completing the progress initiated in Asturias, not go against ”, argued Sánchez Monge.

From FEAFES remember the collaboration for years ” between the Asturian public service and the World Health Organization (who) and that this international agency acknowledged the quality of Asturian services in mental health in 2010.

Finally, the President of FEAFES considered that the care models launched in the cities of Avilés and Gijón, are not only the most effective ”, but also the more environmentally friendly with the rights of persons with mental illness and their families ”.

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The Spanish Confederation of groups of family members and persons with Mental illness (FEAFES) is a body without spirit of profit and social interest that emerged in 1983. It integrates 19 federations and associations uniprovinciales, bringing 285 entities and has more than 45,000 members and associates throughout the national territory.