Personally blessed by Mother Teresa for his work in the drug abuse, alcoholism and HIV / AIDS field, Jatish Shah is a Psychiatric and Addiction Counsellor in Masina Hospital.
Formerly, National Administrator of Kripa Foundation – a national level Non-Governmental Organisation working in the field of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Treatment of Addicts, Alcoholics and Poly-Drug Users. He was, in large measure, responsible for the setting up of 26 Rehabilitation Centres all over India, especially in North East India.
He is Founder-Member and former Chairman of The Kripa Society, Manipur which is into HIV / AIDS Prevention work, including training families in “Home-based care of the HIV / AIDS afflicted”.
He was one of three selected to undergo a management training course inRehabilitation and Counselling at the International Centre for Vocational, Technical and Advanced Training, Turin, Italy under the auspices of the International Labour Organisation.
He is Joint Secretary of the Humanity Health Organisation, a charitable trust comprising like-minded individuals who render yeomen service, both medical and non-medical whenever and wherever needed.
He is also Governing Body Memberof Dilaasa, a support and self-help group for families of people with a mental health problem.
Currently, he is with Masina Hospital at Byculla and conceives, initiates and manages programmes of Recovey for Drug Addicts, Alcoholics, Poly-drug users and the dually diagnosed patient, including managing the administrative and day to day efficacious running of the rehabilitation wards.
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