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Too soon to celebrate Mental Healthcare Act

Despite the incorporation of crucial measures in the new Bill, stakeholders worry

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Mental Healthcare Act

Pranav J Sharma | The Caravan
With 90 per cent of the roughly 60 million Indians suffering from mental illness currently not receiving treatment, the new measures are welcome
 
In December 2014, the international advocacy group Human Rights Watch released a report documenting wide-ranging and intense human-rights abuses involving women in 24 institutions across India that house those perceived to be mentally ill. Most striking amid the blocks of text describing the abuse were the stark images of women and girls forcibly deposited in these institutions. Deepali, a 46-year-old with a perceived mental illness, was pictured on the first page of the document, alongside a

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