Health and Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar on Tuesday launched the Karnataka Brain Health Initiative, a first-of-its-kind programme in the country, undertaken by NIMHANS in association with Niti Ayog.
At the virtual launch programme here, the Minister said that, to begin with, the initiative was being rolled out in Bengaluru, Kolar, and Chickballapur districts on a pilot basis. Under this programme, doctors would be trained in screening and treating mental health patients.
“Ever since the beginning of the pandemic, the Government in association with NIMHANS has been helping people to cope with mental health issues. We have conducted thousands of mental health counselling sessions with COVID-19-infected persons and their families,” he said.
