World Mental Health Day: Stigma and lack of awareness on mental health disorders create treatment gap in Keralam
On World Mental Health Day, officials highlighted that stigma and limited awareness of mental disorders are widening Kerala’s treatment gap. The state’s District Mental Health Programme provides primary‑care services across all districts, but insufficient inpatient beds and a shortage of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychiatric social workers in taluk‑level hospitals and above jeopardize care delivery.