{"id":8808,"date":"2019-09-09T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/sep\/09\/psychiatrist-helping-mentally-ill-people-left-to-wander-india-streets"},"modified":"2019-09-09T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:43:16","slug":"the-psychiatrist-helping-mentally-ill-people-left-to-wander-indias-streets-anne-pinto-rodrigues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8808","title":{"rendered":"The psychiatrist helping mentally ill people left to wander India&#8217;s streets | Anne Pinto-Rodrigues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Vatwani has spent three decades reuniting patients with mental health problems with their families<\/p>\n<p>To the horror of the watching doctors, a young man on a Mumbai street picked up a broken coconut shell, scooped up dirty gutter water with it, and drank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still recall the scene vividly,\u201d says 61-year-old Mumbai psychiatrist Dr Bharat Vatwani. \u201cMy wife, Smitha \u2013 also a psychiatrist \u2013 and I, watched from across the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/sep\/09\/psychiatrist-helping-mentally-ill-people-left-to-wander-india-streets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Vatwani has spent three decades reuniting patients with mental health problems with their familiesTo the horror of the watching doctors, a young man on a Mumbai street picked up a broken coconut shell, scooped up dirty gutter water with it, and dran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"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":[59,566,62,744,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-mental-health","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\/8808","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\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}