Mental health care in India continues to remain out of reach for most who need it: expert
Transforming mental health services is one of the most pressing public health challenges, the WHO states. Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: JOTHI RAMALINGAM B
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Senior psychiatrist from NIMHANS Sanjeev Jain highlights the urgent need to make mental health care accessible to all, the need to address social factors such as violence and inequality, and the necessity to reduce stigma, while emphasising that real change comes from building a less violent, more humane society
More than one billion people globally live with mental health disorders, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), with conditions such as anxiety and depression taking a heavy human and economic toll. As WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus notes, “Transforming mental health services is one of the most pressing public health challenges.
In India, the Economic Survey 2024-25 stated that country is facing a crisis of worsening mental well-being. It was time “to find viable, impactful preventive strategies and interventions,” the survey said, and, given the direct costs to human welfare, putting mental well-being at the centre of the economic agenda would be prudent, it noted.
2025-10-11
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