Mentally ill patients will also be provided with Ambulance service
Chapra,18 July,2019 (HS) Mentally and psychologically patients will also be provided with Ambulance services, loke other serious patients. Joint secreatry of Healthy and Family Welfare ministry has written to all principal secretaries of health department and director of the national health mission and instructed them to do the needful. Accoprding to letter of joint secreatry Vikas Sheel , it was found that in some states, such patients were denied Ambulance service when Mental Health Regulation 2017 clearly says that this service must be provided to such patients. This service has been made necessary for such seriously ill patients
Such patients are of different nature. Serious depression, panic attack, state of confusion and illusion, attempt to commit suicide, remarkable unexpected change of behaviour are indications of such patients.
Civil surgeon Madheshwar Jha told that this facility has been started after the receipt of the instructions and all concerned officials have been directed.
