{"id":51831,"date":"2023-01-13T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jan\/13\/mental-health-camps-assam-india-acc"},"modified":"2023-01-13T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:30:08","slug":"a-lifeline-mental-health-camps-bring-peace-of-mind-to-thousands-in-rural-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51831","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A lifeline\u2019: mental health camps bring peace of mind to thousands in rural Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s severe shortage of mental health professionals and treatment funding leaves many patients without options. But a pioneering programme is working to get lives back on track<\/p>\n<p>It is Saturday morning, and some 40 people on foot, bikes and rickshaws begin trickling into Kuklung village. They take a seat outside a single-storey building and wait to see the psychiatrist at a monthly treatment camp for people with mental health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The camp is providing a lifeline to this remote, impoverished community in Assam, in northeastern India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jan\/13\/mental-health-camps-assam-india-acc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s severe shortage of mental health professionals and treatment funding leaves many patients without options. But a pioneering programme is working to get lives back on trackIt is Saturday morning, and some 40 people on foot, bikes and rickshaws b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3526,"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":[59,566,346,62,744,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-india","category-mental-health","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51831","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\/3526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51832,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51831\/revisions\/51832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}