Bali Govt To Build 100 Houses For Mentally Ill People

Denpasar (Antara Bali) - Bali's provincial government will in 2012  provide 100 houses for mentally disturbed people who  live in uninhabitable houses, a spokesman of the regional social affairs office  said.

"Providing houses for the mentally disturbed people  is part of the Bali provincial government's program to improve the people's housing conditions," head of Bali social affairs office, I Ketut Susrama, said here on Saturday.

The program was meant to benefit not only the region's poor households but also its mentally ill population, I Ketut Susrama said.

"We hope that  in decent houses  mentally disturbed people  can have a better life and be less inclined to  wander around aimlessly in the streets," he said.

Citing an instance proving that proper housing could be of great help to mentally ill people, Ketut said one of such residents of Manggis village in Karangasem district some time ago suddenly regained sanity after hearing  that he would soon receive a much better house.(T007)