title: Psychiatry in Mumbai: What can be done to Expand Services?
abstract: Mumbai and its suburbs constitute a huge population. There are limited services here in the field of psychiatry, mainly located in major hospitals and teaching centres. There is a need to decentralize services. Psychiatrists themselves have limited resources to plan out community-based services, or set up centres, which would cater to all the requirements of the local population. Hence, it is necessary that a group like the Bombay Psychiatric Society make collective efforts to urge government and municipal authorities to create such facilities at different centres in the city and suburbs.
authors.affiliation: MD. President, BPS, 1986-1987. Honorary Ex Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, L.T. Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India.
authors.forename: Kishore P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Dave
keywords: Liaison with medical branches; Liaison with other mental health workers; Rehabilitation centres; Scaling up services; Spreading awareness; Training in psychiatry