The state government will assign specialists to treat patients with mental illnesses at all government hospitals in three months’ time. The government made a submission to this effect on Monday, while a case relating to the shortage of specialists in this discipline was being heard in the Karnatakahigh court. A petition contending that there were no specialists to treat the mentally ill at government hospitals came up for audible range before the division bench of the high court, headed by Justice N Kumar.
The government counsel said the state would take three months to finish the procedure of recruitment of specialists in government hospitals. The government advice added that a new director would be appointed at the Dharwad Institute of Mental Disorder Sciences in a fortnight. On January 20, the high court had sought a report from the state government regarding distribution of medicines to those suffering from mental illness, undergoing treatment at government hospitals. The partition bench has adjourned the case to February 23.
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