Mental Health Center Kerala

Would you please tell me how many Mental Health Centers and Colleges in Kerala according to Kerala State Mental Health Authority? Provide me their Number.

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Kerala State Mental Health Authority is the legal body constituted by the Government of Kerala State in November 1, 1993 under the direction of the Government of India.

Its office is situated in a separate building approximate to the office of the District Medical Officer, Thiruvananthapuram.

As you want to know about number of Mental Health Centers and Colleges in Kerala so I am providing you its detail mentioned by Kerala State Mental Health Authority.


General Health care system in Kerala:

Medical Colleges (Govt Sector) 7
Medical Colleges (Co-operative Sector) 1
Medical Colleges (Pvt. Sector) 18
Govt. Mental Health Centers 3
District Hospitals 16
General Hospitals 18
Taluk Head Quarters Hospitals 81
Community Health Centers 105
Primary Health Centers 944
Government dispensaries 239
Government Rural Dispensaries 310
Sub Centers 5094

Existing Mental Health services available in Kerala:

No. of beds Mental Hospital (Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode & Thrissur) 1342
No. of beds in the psychiatry Departments of Govt. Medical Colleges 216
No. of beds in Government General Hospital Psychiatry units 156

P G Centres in Psychiatry:

MD Seat in Psychiatry in Govt. Medical Colleges 13
DPM Seats in Psychiatry in Govt. Medical Colleges 5
MD Seat in Psychiatry in Pvt. Medical Colleges 16
DPM Seat in Psychiatry in Pvt. Medical Colleges
Dip NB (Psychiatry) 6
Mental Health Center Thiruvananthapuram 4


According to World Health Report 2001:

20 % of all patients seen by primary health care professionals have one or more mental disorders.
Mental disorders account for 10.5% of the global burden of disease (GBD) in 1990, 12% in 2000 and this will increase to 15% by 2020
One out of four families is likely to have at least one member with a behavioral or mental disorder.

Population of Kerala as per the census 2011 is 33387677. Total number of suicide in Kerala during 2012 is 8490 Peoples. The suicide rate in Kerala for the year 2012 is 25.4/- per lakh.


Here I am providing you Kerala State Mental Health Rules 2012 in the attachment.






Address:

Kerala State Mental Health Authority,
Red Cross Road,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, Pin - 695 035

Phone and Fax:

91 471 2472866

E-mail:

mentalhealthauthoritykerala@gmail.com

Web site address:

www.kmsha.org