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Vancouver World Congress
The Federation’s biennial World Congress took place in Vancouver, Canada
on 22-27 July 2001. This was a meeting place for overlapping interests,
attended by 1,200 people from over 60 countries. Chunilal Roy was chair
of the organizing committee. Many viewpoints were represented and many
topics addressed in the program, while the spacious setting of the Vancouver
Convention and Exhibition Center permitted numerous groups to arrange
informal gatherings. In addition, other formal meetings were held before,
during and after the main conference (and some demonstrations as well).
WFMH Board meetings were held before and after the Congress. The Canadian
Mental Health Association arranged its 81st Annual Meeting in conjunction
with it, and also brought participants in its African program to Vancouver
for a training session. The World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
held a meeting on 20-21 July.
A small international meeting of Ministers of Health and their representatives
took place on 23 July, chaired by Gulzar Cheema, British Columbia’s new
Minister of State for Mental Health. This group, with government speakers
from Burkina Faso, Canada, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, the People’s
Republic of China and the United Kingdom, described very wide variations
in medical care. Despite the different level of economic advancement,
however, there was a running theme of inadequacies in provisions for
mental health
back to 2001 Annual Report
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