Delhi: AIIMS Psychiatry follow-up clinic to be run solely by junior doctors
The Psychiatric Department of AIIMS has come under the radar lately for a variety of reasons.;
New Delhi: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi has begun its follow-up clinic facility for those with psychiatric issues.
The facility would be run solely by junior doctors and would only entertain those patients who have already been diagnosed and have been seen in the Out Patient Department (OPD) of the premier hospital, according to sources.
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The Psychiatric Department of AIIMS has come under the radar lately for a variety of reasons.
Over the last year, three suicides, including that of a AIIMS Delhi doctor had been reported.
Dr Anurag Kumar who had been undergoing treatment for clinical depression at the hospital's psychiatric department had jumped from the 10th floor of the doctor's hostel at AIIMS.
Kumar, a junior doctor at the AIIMS Psychiatry Department had in titled his last blog post dated June 21, 2020 as 'A psychiatry trainee's struggle with Depression'.
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