The Department of Psychiatry, Gauhati Medical College Hospital, under the leadership of Prof. Suresh Chakravarty, the Head of the Department, celebrated the World Mental Health Day 2018 with the theme “Young People and Mental Health in the Changing World” at Assam Jatiya Bidyalay, Noonmati, Guwahati-20 through an interactive session with the students at the school premises, along with Utpal Bora, the Managing Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of OJPAS®, Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Bornali Das, the Secretary of SoMHiL, Arundhati Bhagawati, Jyotismita Choudhury, Manisha Bora, and Rajvardhan Narayan.

In addition, Mythili Hazarika delivered a talk on the occasion at Royal Global University, Guwahati. Bornali Das was also in Gauhati University for the occasion, organised by Destination in collaboration with Health and Beyond Foundation (HABF) and supported by Directorate of Student Welfare, Gauhati University.