Abstract
The membership directory of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS), the report (on mental health) of the technical committee of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), and the recently concluded National Mental Health Survey. [...]data from the recently concluded NMHS addresses this issue in the following manner: “The availability of psychiatrists in the NMHS states varied from 0.05 per lakh population in Madhya Pradesh to 1.2 per 100,000 population in Kerala. From the public health point of view, this leads to a couple of searching issues: (a) absence of a reliable and unified system of monitoring of numbers of psychiatrists (b) addressing the shortage of psychiatrists (c) related to the above, addressing the huge variability of their availability.
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1 Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka