[Table/Fig-1]:
Patient profile on first presentation to a mental health establishment.
| Sr. No. | On Presentation | HMH (N=47) |
GMC (N=35) |
Overall (N=82) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patient brought to authorities by | Helping person | 9 | 21 | 30 |
| Emergency 108 | 15 | 10 | 25 | ||
| Police | 20 | 3 | 23 | ||
| NGO | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 2 | Place found at (Street or railway station) | Surat | 8 | 33 | 41 |
| Vadodara | 20 | 0 | 20 | ||
| Bharuch | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Bhavnagar | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Kutch | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Vyara | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Vapi | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Tapi | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Bardoli | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Dang Ahwa | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 3 | First admitted/presented/stayed in | GMC Surat | 8 | 31 | 39 |
| GMC Vadodara | 15 | 0 | 15 | ||
| SMIMER Medical College, Surat | 7 | 0 | 7 | ||
| GMC Bhavnagar | 10 | 0 | 10 | ||
| HMH | 6 | 0 | 6 | ||
| Nari Sanrakshan Gruh | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Dang Ahwa hospital | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||