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General knowledge refresher General knowledge refresher   Published this article Further for mental health there is neither adequate consciousness among people nor adequate medical facilities in all parts of India. As per National Mental Health Survey (2016) life time prevalence of mental illness in India is 13.7% with over 15 crore patients needing active intervention only 49% have a mental health facility within 25 km radius and 26% people have no mental health facility within 50 km radius 59% people have no de-addiction service 80% people have no health insurance and 28% of global suicides occur in India. In Bihar there has been a rise of 30% in mental disorder cases during 2012-2019. In 2019 Koelwar (Bhojpur district) mental hospital registered more than 50000 mental cases. Despite recovery of many mental patients their families are not taking them back   general knowledge refresher magazine  buy . General knowledge refresher

Meri saheli magazine online . Meri saheli magazine online    Published this article There accrued a huge shortage of doctors and supporting medical staff leading to patients bound to go to private clinics  There was a shortage of medical equipment drugs and pathological facilities in public health institutionshospitals were reduced to mere writing of prescriptions and patients were compelledto buy medicines from the open market and to get pathological tests done at private labs at higher costs Private doctors not only indulged in charging exorbitant fees but also prescribed unnecessarily more and costlier medicines as well as avoidable pathological testsDue to the laxity of the State regulatory apparatuses even government doctors and supporting staff started giving more time at their private clinics Due to the retreat of state in providing subsidised food sanitation facilities there was a rise in communicable and non-communicable diseases leading to long duration of morbi...