Srinagar, May 17 (KMS): As mental disorder patients have been increasing due to the ongoing conflict, psychiatric health sector in occupied Kashmir is in dire straits.

This was revealed by the Head of India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Dr D Nagarajan during a function in Srinagar.

Dr D Nagarajan said that there was shortage of infrastructure and manpower in the occupied territory to handle the growing number of psychiatric patients, which needs to be addressed, adding that Kashmir needed special attention in this sector. He pointed out that the institutions that were doing counselling of patients in Kashmir don’t have requisite technical skills.

On increasing rate of suicides in occupied Kashmir, Dr D Nagarajan said, “Suicide is reflection of any mental health in the society and if the society is disturbed, it is bound to increase.”