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IPDE - Extranet Systems - World Health Organization

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Description of centres participating in<br />

the <strong>IPDE</strong> field trial<br />

Aleksandar Janca and Charles Pull<br />

Bangalore<br />

Bangalore has been the capital of the southem Indian state of Kamataka<br />

(formerly Mysore) since 1830. The name comes from the word 'bendalalwm,'<br />

which means 'village of boiled grains' in the Kannada language.<br />

It is the fifth largest city in India. with about four million<br />

inhabitants consisting primarily of three cultural and linguistic groups:<br />

Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil. Bangalore was the headquarters of the<br />

British administration until 1881, and Britain retained its colonial and<br />

military presence there until independence in 1947. The city has an old<br />

seaion and several surrounding modem suburbs with many parks, wide<br />

streets, and a sprawl of military cantonments to the east. Often called the<br />

Garden City of India because of its salubrious climate, but more recently<br />

its rapid industrialization has also earned it the sobriquet, Silicon City.<br />

The National Institute of Mental <strong>Health</strong> and Neuro Sciences<br />

(NIMHANS) is the largest mental health institution in the area and the<br />

largest postgraduate training centre in the country. It was established in<br />

1974 as an autonomous institution, that amalgamated the Mental<br />

Hospital and the All India Institute of Mental <strong>Health</strong>. There are 24<br />

depamnents grouped into three major sections: behavioural sciences.<br />

basic sciences and neurosciences. There is an 805-bed hospital with provision<br />

for 650 psychiatric and 155 neurological and neurosurgical<br />

patients. There is a multidisciplinary approach. which integrates service,<br />

training, and research in mental health and the neurosciences.<br />

The Department of Psychiauy of NIMHANS has collaborated with<br />

the Division of Mental <strong>Health</strong> of the <strong>World</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Organization</strong> (WHO)<br />

for more than a decade. The collaboration has been particularly successful<br />

regarding the diagnosis and assessment of mental disorders and their<br />

culture-specific characteristics. Research investigators in the department<br />

have translated several diagnostic instruments developed by WHO into<br />

Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi, and participated in their field trials. The<br />

Institute serves as a WHO training and reference centre for the

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