Mental Health treatment at Fortis Hospitals

Fortis Hospitals, being one of the top hospitals in India, has been actively engaged in pioneering mental health treatments and removing the taboo and stigma that comes along with just about any mental health disorders in this country. As a medical institution, we are dedicated to treat mental illnesses with equivalent priority in par with physical illnesses and bring relief to the thousands of mental health patients across the country who are in need of help. Our Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences department is a state-of- the-art, fully cohesive care system that metes out prime quality healthcare to patients, backed by intensive check-ups and thorough clinical evaluations by medical experts.

Amongst some of the best hospitals in India, Fortis offers a wide array of treatment services for the
mentally ill. Spearheaded by the highly reputed Dr. Samir Parikh, our mental healthcare team includes some of the best psychiatric care providers in the private sector domain. A comprehensive range of cognitive, emotional and behavioral disorders in people of all age groups and ethnic backgrounds are treated at Fortis with an immaculate expertise. Having on board some of the most well-practiced and skilled psychiatrists, psychologists, counseling personnel and clinical psychoanalysts- we administer treatment to the needy on a personal, individual basis, with an added humane touch.

The sphere of mental health is a complex one with several subdivisions. In order for patients to fully
recover from their conditions, a visit to the psychiatrist is often not enough. Behavioral therapy,
Occupational therapy and sometimes even Art therapy is deemed necessary to aid the revival process
for the patients. At Fortis, which is proud to serve some of the best medical treatments in India, we
follow international standards of psychiatric care and uphold global level service when it comes to
upgrading with latest day medical technologies and treatment methods.

Fortis Hospitals provides mental health care on the basis of both inpatient and outpatient admissions. Patients can attend their sessions with the doctors individually, as a couple or even as a small group. We encourage people to break the disgraceful proscription that surrounds mental illnesses in India and come seek help without having to worry about any social shame. It is our aspiration, at the department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, to further stimulate an encompassing spirit of mutual respect, trust and hope among our patients, their care-givers and the community in general.

In the race against mental health diseases, a positive atmosphere reckoning of love and compassion is
equally important alongside counseling and medication. Well known as the provider of one of the best medical treatments in India, Fortis Hospitals aims at creating and nurturing an overall ambiance that helps ameliorate the conditions of patients on multiple levels: firstly, improving their psychological and emotional health through highly functional, efficacious treatment procedures and then backing it up and preventing a relapse by providing careful, integrated follow-ups and generating a comforting and supportive climate at the hospital where the staff is specially trained to handle psychiatric patients with utmost care and supervision.

With a noble target of expanding mental health facilities to the farthest corners of every community,
Fortis Hospitals has come up with a unique scheme. The Fortis National Mental Health Program has been crafted by Dr. Samir Parikh and his team of doctors with the mission of spreading undeviating
psychiatric care across all Fortis branches in India. Presently active in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore- the extra ordinariness of the program manifests in the invariably uniform services it offers to the patients, run by the main Mental Health department of Fortis. The services include:

• Fortis Organizational Psychology Initiative
• Fortis Outreach Program
• Fortis School Mental Health Program
• Fortis Annual Psychology Conference
• Fortis Fellowship Program

Alongside the basic essential medical services meted out by the doctors, in each of these programs, the team of specialists collaborates with various education, healthcare and community service providers in the grass root levels in all corners of the country to especially create more awareness about psychiatric conditions in the rural areas. The Fortis National Mental Health Council is made up of specialists standing for each zone where Fortis currently operates from. The council is responsible for inventing new methods, training professionals and revolutionize the process of mental health in the country to keep up with the standard of being one of India’s best medical service providers.