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Nation Posted On Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | Agencies
New Delhi, Mar 16:
Twenty eight per cent of suicides in India are due to family problems and seven per cent are attributable to mental illness, according to the latest report of National Crime Records Bureau.
To detect and treat depression and other mental illness, government mental hospitals, psychiatry wings of medical colleges and general hospitals are run by the state and central governments, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha today.
Licenses are also issued to private mental hospitals and psychiatric nursing homes by the concerned licensing authorities of state governments to provide mental health services.
Azad said the government was implementing the National Mental Health Programme with the objectives of augmenting the mental health care capacity of the states and Union Territories to detect and treat depression and other mental illnesses.
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