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DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the subsequent questions. Some words in the passage are given in bold to help you locate them while answering the questions.


Persons with mental illness have long been subjected to cruelty, neglect, ridicule and stigma. In the last half-century, medical science has made significant strides in finding some cures and palliatives for afflictions of the mind – of emotion, mood, thinking and behavior. Parallel to this is the evolution in our ethical frameworks: of human rights, and acknowledgment of the equal dignity of all human beings. But changes in the law, social attitudes, and the work of healthcare institutions and psychiatric professionals, have not kept pace with these scientific and normative advances.


The Mental Health Care Bill, 2012, recently released by the government, is an exceptional State-led attempt to correct many of the historical wrongs to which persons with mental illness have long been subject. The draft emerged after a long and engaged process of consultation with persons with mental illness, their care-givers, their organisations, and professionals.


The new Bill contains many protections to persons with mental illness. It bars prolonged hospitalisation, chaining, compulsory tonsuring, forced sterilisation, and electro-convulsive therapy without anaesthesia, and defends rights of patients to privacy, personal clothes and protection from abuse. It also prescribes that all persons with mental illness have the right to dignity, and to live in, be part of, and not segregated from society.


The Bill also mandates that mental health services shall be integrated into general health services at all levels – primary, secondary and tertiary, and that these services shall be available in the neighborhood. If enforced, this will draw a curtain on the long tragic history of injustices and abuses which characterized large, segregated mental hospitals.


The opening sections of the Bill are forthright in admitting that persons with mental illness suffer discrimination, and that the current law has failed to protect their rights and promote their access to health care. It goes on to assure all persons the right to ‘affordable’ good quality public health care.


Despite its many progressive and humane features, the Bill is still attacked by some radical associations of persons with mental illness, mainly because it retains provisions in rare cases to admit patients for care, even against their will. This debate has an important history.

Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

Options:
A) The new bill advocates the segregation of mentally derailed persons from the society
B) The Mental Health Care Bill is an attempt to alleviate the miseries of mentally challenged people
C) The bill is no doubt, a saviour for persons with mental illness
D) Only (a) and (b)
E) Both (a) and (c)
Solution:
Ans: (a) 

 It is stated in the passage that...It also prescribes that all persons with mental illness have the right to dignity, and to live in, be part of, and not segregated from society.Hence, option (a) is incorrect

At more than one places it is stressed that The Bill is intended to ameliorate the pitiable state of mentally challenged people...The Mental Health Care Bill, 2012, recently released by the government, is an exceptional State-led attempt to correct many of the historical wrongs to which persons with mental illness have long been subject. 

 The new Bill contains many protections to persons with mental illness. It bars prolonged hospitalisation, chaining, compulsory tonsuring, forced sterilisation, and electro-convulsive therapy without anaesthesia, and defends rights of patients to privacy, personal clothes and protection from abuse. 

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