UNS — Another excellent achievement was accomplished by the Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta students, after three UNS Medicine Education Study Program students recently won 2nd Place in the national public poster competition. The three are An’nurihza Zidhan Azhara, Tyasno Koeshermanto, and Vina Sari Nugrahaning Widi.
The competition entitled ‘General Achmad Yani Scientific Competition 2021’ was organized by the Faculty of Medicine, Jenderal Achmad Yani University. In the competition, Ihza and his team created a poster on Schizophrenia. He said that the poster’s purpose was to provide information to the public about Schizophrenia and its preventive measure.
“We decided to choose this topic because there is still much stigma in the community towards people with mental disorders, which is considered due to supernatural influences, and many of them are in shackles. This topic is in line with the shackle-free Indonesia Policy. On the other hand, we also provide information to educate people to have more concern toward mental health,” explained Ihza to uns.ac.id, Friday (4/2/2022).
Dozens of teams from various universities in Indonesia participated in the poster competition. The submitted posters were assessed by the competition committee, and participants who qualify as finalists must take part in the final round on Saturday (29/1/2022). The competition’s winner was announced at the National Symposium on Mental Health Sunday (30/1/2022).
“We are exhilarated, we did not expect for this outcome and are grateful to have won 2nd Place in this competition. Hopefully, we can continue to develop our ideas and creativity in the future, thus, all the ideas contained in the posters can be useful for the community,” said Tyasno Koeshermanto.
Meanwhile, Vina Sari Nugrahaning Widia, often called Vina, hopes that the public will understand more about mental disorders, especially Schizophrenia. “Aside from increasing community concerns’ toward mental disorders, we hope that the community can also remove the stigma against People with Mental Disorders (ODGJ),” hoped Vina. Humas UNS
Reporter: Bayu Aji Prasetya
Editor: Dwi Hastuti