Judicial panel visits Thiruvananthapuram Mental Health Centre, expresses concern over vital infrastructure deficiencies
The Kerala High Court has expressed concerns over the state of infrastructure at the Thiruvananthapuram Mental Health Centre and issued directions to address the issues concerning patient care and management of the centre. Naming them as the ‘mainstay of the institution’, the court observed that attenders not only manage patients’ immediate needs, but also ensure that caregivers and doctors treat patients with dignity. They were found to be taking on additional roles in the kitchen and in cleaning the centre’s premises, spread over 31 acres.
- ▪The Kerala High Court has expressed concerns over the state of infrastructure at the Thiruvananthapuram Mental Health Centre and issued directions to address the issues concerning patient care and management of the centre.
- ▪Naming them as the ‘mainstay of the institution’, the court observed that attenders not only manage patients’ immediate needs, but also ensure that caregivers and doctors treat patients with dignity.
- ▪They were found to be taking on additional roles in the kitchen and in cleaning the centre’s premises, spread over 31 acres.
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The Kerala High Court has expressed concerns over the state of infrastructure at the Thiruvananthapuram Mental Health Centre and issued directions to address the issues concerning patient care and management of the centre. A Division Bench consisting of Justices Devan Ramachandran and Basant Balaji, visited the centre and held that the issues have to be considered in the “context of the present era” rather than clinging to the “protocols of the past”.The court highlighted the shortage in personnel as ‘woefully insufficient’ and noted that the centre was surviving with only 127 attenders against sanctioned 158 posts.
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