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Thanapal Sivakumar1, Prabhu Jadhav1, Abhishek Allam1
1Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Sivakumar, Jadhav, Allam, Ramachandraiah, Vanishree, Meera, Doddur, Basavarajappa, Kumar, Thirthalli) and Association of People With Disability (Santhosha, Janardhana), Bengaluru, India.
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to community-based rehabilitation (CBR) for persons with mental illness, especially in resource-constrained settings. This column discusses the pandemic-related challenges faced by a rural CBR program in Jagaluru taluk (a subdistrict) in Karnataka, India. Thanks to stakeholder collaboration, task shifting with lay health workers, and implementation of telepsychiatry, the authors' clinical team could ensure uninterrupted medical care for persons with serious mental illness. Other CBR components were reduced because of pandemic-imposed resource and logistic constraints.
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