The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to tell the Court whether a Medical Superintendent from the institute could visit the house of a psychiatric patient suffering from Schizophrenia and analyse his condition.
The Single-Judge Bench of Justice V. Kameswar Rao passed the order on a petition filed by the mother of a 33-year-old person, who was diagnosed with ‘Bipolar disorder and Psychosis’ in 2006.
His symptoms aggravated and later, he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia in year 2019. It is alleged that owing to his mental condition, he would get aggressive towards his parents and also exhibit violent behaviour.
Advocate Anupam Srivastava, representing the Delhi Police, submitted that when the Delhi Police went to the petitioner’s house in pursuance to the order of the Court, the man could not be found.
The Court posted the matter for February 21.
, on a petition by his mother seeking treatment for him at AIIMS
The Court is seized of a plea filed by Advocate Akhil Sachar, on behalf of the mother of a 33 year old person who was diagnosed with `Bipolar disorder and Psychosis’ in 2006 and his symptoms aggravated and later, he was diagnosed with ‘Schizophrenia’ in year 2019. It is alleged that owing to his mental condition, he would get aggressive towards his parents and also exhibit violent behaviour.
The Court, vide an order passed in May last year, had observed that the son of the petitioner requires urgent medical attention and in lieu thereof, directed the Delhi Police to place him under the care of Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), which shall provide the necessary treatment to him. Accordingly, he was duly administered treatment in consonance with the Mental Health Care Act, 2017.
Subsequently, an application was moved by her mother contending that her son is reluctant to go to IHBAS for treatment and thereby, prayed for a direction for providing treatment for him at AIIMS. The AIIMS, however, on an earlier occasion, expressed its inability to provide an attendant in case the petitioner’s son is admitted there, but has no objection in admitting him if the petitioner can arrange for an attendant. Thereafter, the Court has directed the Delhi Police to make arrangements to take him to AIIMS for being examined therein.