4th April 2020

The Department of Psychiatry, GMCH had trained the health care professionals from District mental health program, Assam today by webinar. The topic was on “Stress management during COVID-19 pandemic and the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Dr Shyamanta Das spoke on psychiatry aspects, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika spoke on crisis management techniques and tele-psychological counselling, ethics and guidelines and Dr Bornali Das, Secretary of SoMHiL, spoke on psychosocial aspects and practically demonstrated mindfulness based stress reduction technique.