Right to access mental healthcare

Health2017126 sections

Statutory text

(2) The appropriate Government shall ensure that mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness are available in every district.
(3) The mental healthcare and services shall include—
- (a) acute mental healthcare;
- (b) chronic mental healthcare;
- (c) ambulance services;
- (d) mental healthcare in prisons;
- (e) half-way homes;
- (f) sheltered accommodation;
- (g) supported accommodation;
- (h) supported employment;
  - (i) assertive community treatment;
- (j) home-based rehabilitation;
- (k) hospital based rehabilitation;
- (l) such other services as may be prescribed.
(4) Every person with mental illness who is homeless or is living in destitute conditions shall be entitled to stay in hostels and such other accommodation as may be provided by the appropriate Government.

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