A Private Psychiatric Specialty Hospital in Kanpur – Some Initial Experiences

Abstract

The modern trend throughout the world is to treat psychiatric patients in the environment in which they live to facilitate their quick return to their families and place of work. It is stated that the “establishment of a psychiatric unit in a general hospital has done more to advance than in any diagnostic or therapeutic discovery.” It is also being remarked that systemic instruction in psychiatry is non-existent in most medical colleges, and in most others, the status of psychiatry is nothing better than merely acknowledging its existence. The general hospital psychiatric units would be in a better position to provide improved treatment and teaching facilities. They would also benefit from the atmosphere of therapeutic optimism, continuity of care, day hospital treatment, and facilities of special investigations, referral, and treatment of concurrent physical diseases. With this impression, more and more psychiatric units are being opened in general hospitals to meet the country’s growing mental health requirements.