Lok Sabha Question No. 2778 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-17
Subject: National Tele-Mental Health Mision
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta, Ramapati Ram Tripathi, Brijbhushan Sharan Singh, P.P. Chaudhary, Pratap Chandra Sarangi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2778 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17 TH  MARCH, 2023

## NATIONAL TELE-MENTAL HEALTH MISSION

## 2778.  SHRI SANGAM LAL GUPTA:

DR. RAMAPATI RAM TRIPATHI:

SHRI BRIJBHUSHAN SHARAN SINGH:

SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY:

SHRI PRATAP CHANDRA SARANGI:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) the salient features and objectives of the National Tele-Mental Health Mission;
- (b) the details of Tele-Mental Health Centres established in the country, State-wise and districtwise particularly in Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan;
- (c) whether the Government plans to further expand the system of Tele-Mental Health Centres to remote parts of the country; and
- (d) if so, the details and status thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (DR. BHARATI PRAVIN PAWAR)

- (a) The salient features of the National Tele Mental Health Programme are as follows:
- (i) Provide basic support and counselling services;
- (ii) Connect with a mental health professional for specialised mental health services;
- (iii) Enable people to seek help when it is not possible for them to come physically to a hospital or a help centre;
- (iv) Tele MANAS services range from telephonic counselling to facilitating referrals for operational care.

The objectives of the National Tele Mental Health Programme are as follows:

- (i) To  exponentially  scale  up  the  reach  of  mental  health  services  to  anybody  who reaches out, across India, any time, by setting up a 24x7 tele-mental health facility in each of the States and UTs of the country;
- (ii) To implement a fully-fledged mental health service network that, in addition to counselling, provides integrated medical and psychosocial interventions including video  consultations  with  mental  health  specialists,  e-prescriptions,  follow-up services and linkages to in-person services;
- (iii) To extend services to vulnerable groups of the population and difficult to reach populations.
- (b) to (d)    Tele-MANAS has been rolled out all over the country. As on 13 th March, 2023, 36 Tele MANAS Cells are functional in 25 States as per details provided at Annexure.

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|   Sl. No. | States                              |   No. of sanctioned Tele Manas Cells | No. of functioning Tele MANAS Cells   | Name of the functioning Tele MANAS Cells                                                                               |
|-----------|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh                      |                                    2 | 1                                     | A &NIslands institute of Medical Sciences (ANIIMS), Port Blair                                                         |
|         2 | Andaman & Nicobar Islands           |                                    1 | 1                                     | Siddartha Medical College, Vijayawada                                                                                  |
|         3 | Arunachal Pradesh                   |                                    1 | -                                     | -                                                                                                                      |
|         4 | Assam                               |                                    1 | 1                                     | State Head Quarters, NHM, Guwahati                                                                                     |
|         5 | Bihar                               |                                    3 | 3                                     | Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, Bhagalpur Bihar Institute of Mental Health and Allied Sciences, Bhojpur |
|         6 | Chhattisgarh                        |                                    1 | 1                                     | District Hospital, Raipur                                                                                              |
|         7 | Chandigarh                          |                                    1 | 1                                     | Govt Medical College &Hospital (GMCH) Sector 32 in liason with GMCHSector 16, Chandigarh                               |
|         8 | Daman & Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli |                                    1 | 1                                     | Shri Vinoba Bhave Civil Hospital, IT Cell/108 building, Silvassa                                                       |
|         9 | Delhi                               |                                    1 | 1                                     | IHBAS, New Delhi                                                                                                       |
|        10 | Gujarat                             |                                    2 | 1                                     | Hospital for Mental Health, Ahmedabad                                                                                  |
|        11 | Goa                                 |                                    1 | -                                     | -                                                                                                                      |
|        12 | Haryana                             |                                    1 | 1                                     | Civil Hospital, Sec-6, Panchkula                                                                                       |
|        13 | Himachal Pradesh                    |                                    1 | -                                     | -                                                                                                                      |
|        14 | Jammu &Kashmir                      |                                    1 | 1                                     | IMHANS Kashmir, Srinagar                                                                                               |
|        15 | Jharkhand                           |                                    1 | 1                                     | CIP, Ranchi                                                                                                            |
|        16 | Karnataka                           |                                    2 | 2                                     | DIMHANS, Dharwad NIMHANS, Bengaluru                                                                                    |
|        17 | Kerala                              |                                    1 | 1                                     | State Mental Health Programme office, Mental Health Center Campus, Peroorkada, Thiruvananthapuram                      |
|        18 | Ladakh                              |                                    1 | -                                     | -                                                                                                                      |
|        19 | Lakshadweep                         |                                    1 | -                                     | -                                                                                                                      |
|        20 | Madhya Pradesh                      |                                    2 | 2                                     | MGMMedical College, Indore Gwalior Mental Hospital, Gwalior                                                            |
|        21 | Manipur                             |                                    1 | 1                                     | Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal Regional Mental Hospital Thane                                          |
|        22 | Maharashtra                         |                                    3 | 3                                     | Regional Mental Hospital Pune Geriatric Health and Mental Illness Center, Ambejogai District Hospital, Beed            |
|        23 | Meghalaya                           |                                    1 | -                                     | -                                                                                                                      |

| 24    | Mizoram       | 1        | 1        | Directorate of Hospital &Medical Education, MINECO, Khatla, Aizwal                                           |
|-------|---------------|----------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 25    | Nagaland      | 1        | -        | -                                                                                                            |
| 26    | Odisha        | 2        | 2        | District Mental Health Programme (DMHP) / De-Addiction Centre (DAC) Unit ofMKCGMCH Campus, Ganjam, Berhampur |
| 27    | Puducherry    | 1        | -        | -                                                                                                            |
| 28    | Punjab        | 1        | -        | -                                                                                                            |
| 29    | Rajasthan     | 2        | -        | -                                                                                                            |
| 30    | Sikkim        | 1        | -        | -                                                                                                            |
| 31    | Tamil Nadu    | 2        | 1        | 104 Helpline, The Director of Medical &Rural Health Services, Chennai                                        |
| 32    | Telangana     | 1        | 1        | Institute of Mental Health, Hyderabad                                                                        |
| 33    | Tripura       | 1        | 1        | Modern Psychiatric Hospital, Narsingarh                                                                      |
| 34    | Uttar Pradesh | 4        | 4        | Mental Hospital, Varanasi Mental Health Institute &Hospital, Agra                                            |
| 35    | Uttarakhand   | 1        | 1        | Mental Health Hospital, Bareilly Mental Health Institute, Dehradun, Selaqui                                  |
| 36    | West Bengal   | 2        | 2        | Swasthya Bhawan Campus, Kolkata                                                                              |
| TOTAL | TOTAL         | 51 Cells | 36 Cells | Institute Of Psychiatry, Kolkata                                                                             |