WhatsApp group helps mental health patients

Health ministry to send psychiatrists to 14 district hospitals every month to treat them.

Ganesh Rai, a public health inspector at Bhojpur’s Tyamkemaiyum Rural Municipality-7, had been seeing his neighbour who has been suffering from bipolar disorder, a serious mental health condition, for years. But Rai came to realise the severity of his neighbour’s problem only a few months ago after he took a week-long mental health training and connected to a WhatsApp group of health workers, including psychiatrists and psychologists.