Description
Mental Health Act 1987 (since repealed Mental Health Care Act 2017) mandated establishment of the Mental health Hospital every State. Acting on the requirement of the Act, Himachal Government established the Himachal Hospital of Mental Health and Rehabilitation in the year 2002.
In the salubrious locale of deodar surrounded forest the isolation hospital under Indira Gandhi Medical college was converted in to Himachal Hospital of Mental health and Rehabilitation. A new building started to come up and was completed in 2004. The hospital was inaugurated on 2nd October 2004 by the then Governor of Himachal Pradesh His Excellency Sh. Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje in the presence of the then Chief Minister Sh. Vir Bhadra Singh.
Dr. R.S. Dhatwalia who was first psychiatrist to join the hospital in 2004 was also posted as first Senior Medical Superintendent of the Himachal Hospital of Mental Health and Rehabilitation.
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