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| Year : 2003 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 161-165 |
Decentralisation of Mental Health Services under DMHP
BK Waraich1, Lok Raj2, BS Chavan3, R Badhan4, SN Panda5
1 Psychiatrist, District Mental Health Programme, Chandigarh, India
2 Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Govt Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, India
3 Prof and Head, Department of Psychiatry, Govt Medical College and Hospital. Sector 32, Chandigarh, India
4 Psychiatric Social Worker, DMHP. Chandigarh, India
5 Chemical Psychologist, DMHP, Chandigarh, India
Correspondence Address:
B S Chavan
Prof and Head, Department of Psychiatry, Govt Medical College and Hospital. Sector 32, Chandigarh
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
PMID: 21206848 
The Bellary model of district mental health programme(DMHP) has been adopted by the government of India under the national mental health programme with the primary aim of making mental health care accessible to all by setting up psychiatric services in peripheral areas, training primary health care personnel and involving the community in promotion of mental health care. The DMHP was set up in Chandigarh in a 50 bedded Civil Hospital in a suburb of Chandigarh.This study aims to present the sociodemographic and clinical data of all cases seen in the first six months and discusses the need of decentralisation of mental health services. A total of 527 patients were seen in the first six months. 52% of the males presented with substance use disorders while a majority of the females (40%) presented with mood disorders. In patients with illness of duration more than one year, upto 51.9% had no past psychiatric treatment and 27.6% were on irregular treatment. Reasons for this are discussed. In conclusion, it was seen that decentralisation was a felt need of the community and required not only in rural but urban areas as well.
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