{"id":12311,"date":"2019-12-20T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/dec\/20\/they-travel-hours-to-see-a-doctor-for-a-minute-indias-mental-health-crisis"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:00:10","slug":"they-travel-hours-to-see-a-doctor-for-a-minute-indias-mental-health-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12311","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They travel hours to see a doctor for a minute&#8217;: India&#8217;s mental health crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer than two psychiatrists for every 100,000 people, experts are seeking innovative solutions to address the emergency<\/p>\n<p>On a sunny morning at Calcutta Pavlov Hospital, 600 people wait patiently in the outpatient department. For many, the journey to see a doctor started hours before sunrise, with some even travelling overnight to secure their place in line. Despite waiting for hours, most will spend just 90 seconds with the psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p>One of the doctors on call, Dr Debananda Saha, expects to treat about 250 patients during his seven-hour shift at the government hospital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/dec\/20\/they-travel-hours-to-see-a-doctor-for-a-minute-indias-mental-health-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fewer than two psychiatrists for every 100,000 people, experts are seeking innovative solutions to address the emergencyOn a sunny morning at Calcutta Pavlov Hospital, 600 people wait patiently in the outpatient department. For many, the journey t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,566,62,744,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-mental-health","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12312,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions\/12312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}