Soon, NIMHANS will be having the Neurology and Neurosurgery facility in Meghalaya.
It will cater to the treatment of patients in the North - Eastern States, Director Dr D. Nagaraja has said.
In an interview with this website’s newspaper, he said the number of patients arriving at NIMHANS has increased 10 - 15 per cent every year. It has attained saturation with its capacity having stretched to the limit.
In Karnataka, he said, NIMHANS has proposed a District Mental Health Programme with the active participation of the State government.
It facilitates for a nodal officer in each district with psychiatrist, psychologist and a social worker. It will also take care of the mental health of schoolchildren.
To pump in more resources into mental health and care in the nation, the Union Government has allocated Rs 1000 crore.
The State has chalked out a detailed policy in consultation with the NIMHANS to upgrade the infrastructure in district hospitals across the country and impart training in manpower.
In addition, the Global Fund has funded Rs 76 crore to set up counselling and activity centres for HIV - AIDS patients.
The NIMHANS is the principal recipient of the fund - which is vested with the responsibility of executing the plan, he said.
“Our doctors are involved in training medical officials in psychiatric treatment in post-earthquake Kashmir and in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Philippines after tsunami,” he says.
To meet the demands of psychiatrists, the institute is conducting short-term courses to train the physicians, he said.
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