Ep.16 World Mental Health Day | The Reality Of Mental Health Care In India

This World Mental Health Day, we bring to you a  very special episode. Host, Suchita Bhhatia is joined by mental health activist- Mr. Amrit Bakhshy, President of Schizophrenia Awareness Society (SAA), psychologist  - Dr. Uma Dalvi and Researcher & Lawyer- Arjun Kapoor of Centre For Mental Health Law & Policy(CMHLP) They revisit to the Mental Health Care Act introduced in 2017 and discuss about its implementation.  There were several discussions on the current state  of mental health care in India :-  One was the infrastructure of mental health- lack of  adequate mental health professionals to hospitals to accessibility .   Second was the high costs of treatment on mental health especially  severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia. What would the common man do  - and worse the underprivileged? And an in depth talk on understanding  recovery; we questioned if there was adequate research on the medicines  provided for mental illnesses and if this gap is being misused by  certain practitioners and other companies ? Listen to the complete episode and understand, what is mental healthcare and why is so important The  views expressed on all the shows produced and distributed by Ep.Log  Media are personal to the host and the guest of the shows respectively  and with no intention to harm the sentiments of any  individual/organisation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.