Open AccessPsychiatry in Mumbai: What can be done to Expand Services?
Author(s) -
Kishore P Dave
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
mens sana monographs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0973-1229
pISSN - 1998-4014
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1229.153295
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , population , plan (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , psychiatry , public relations , business , public administration , political science , medicine , geography , environmental health , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , programming language
Mumbai and its suburbs constitute a huge population. There are limited services here in the field of psychiatry, mainly located in major hospitals and teaching centres. There is a need to decentralize services. Psychiatrists themselves have limited resources to plan out community-based services, or set up centres, which would cater to all the requirements of the local population. Hence, it is necessary that a group like the Bombay Psychiatric Society make collective efforts to urge government and municipal authorities to create such facilities at different centres in the city and suburbs.