More than 150 million people suffer from some form of mental illness in India, but there are just 4,500 psychiatrists in the country — and almost all of them are in cities, running expensive clinics. How then should psychiatry be practised in a country like ours?
Dr Nilesh Mohite believes the psychiatrist needs to go to the patient. He has set an example by relocating from Mumbai to remote villages of Assam. Here he works with ANT or the Action Northeast Trust, whose founder, Dr Sunil Kaul, is a general physician.
Dr Kaul was already running a mental health. . .
