Karnataka High Court Orders Immediate Upgradation Of DIMHANS To Higher Psychiatry Centre
Live LawThe Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the State Government to upgrade, by March 1, 2022, the Dharwad Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences to a higher psychiatry centre and install and make operational the MRI Machine in the hospital. A division bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum in its order said, "We want to emphasise that this hospital shall be upgraded as a higher psychiatric center at the earliest as the government itself has announced for upgrading. The direction was given during the hearing of a public interest litigation filed by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority in the year 1996. The court in its order dated March 5, 2020 had directed the state government to take immediate steps for procuring a MRI machine of requisite specifications for the use of DIMHANS.