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Description

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The hospital is spread over 210 acres of lush green campus There are 16 wards nine for male patients six for female patients and a Family Unit They have a total bed capacity of 643 Each ward is of pavilion type and has well laid out roads and lawns around it The wards were built during the British Raj and are named after eminent European psychiatrists and physicians The wards are at some distance from each other and the male and female sections are separated by a high wall Unlike other mental hospitals CIP Ranchi has never been a custodial care facility It has always been an open hospital and the patients are never confined to rooms They are free to roam within the boundary wall of the hospital

Year OPDTOTAL Emergency Services Admission Discharge Death Special Clinics Community Outreach clinics attendance PG Adm Research papers

1997 31787 1691 1681 11 5 36 24
1998 32366 1709 1781 11 5 31 32
1999 32135 2006 2004 13 5 35 54
2000 37465 2474 2400 10 8 39 64
2001 42295 1847 2677 2664 7 12 897 49 40
2002 47018 2226 2900 2851 6 12 1793 51 47
2003 48367 2277 3061 3072 5 13 2849 53 45
2004 53159 2453 2977 2983 4 13 3513 47 46
2005 55820 2556 3209 3197 6 13 4041 44 31
2006 62456 2118 3208 3217 3 12 4585 35 58
2007 55903 2201 3047 2966 10 12 1008 49 38

Every year about 3000 patients are admitted and discharged after treatment Individualized patient care is a regular practice in the hospital Regular bedside rounds ensure quality care for the patients and training for the residents and students Besides pharmacotherapy electroconvulsive therapy psychotherapies and family interventions are routinely employed A milieu therapy approach exists where patients participate in running the ward and help in looking after other patients Regular physical exercise outdoor and indoor games and Yoga are on hand for the patients A very well stacked library having books in English Hindi Urdu and Bengali as well as a number of newspapers and magazines is freely accessible to the patients

Our staff recognizes the vulnerability of patients during their inpatient stay To address this state of mind we focus on stabilizing the patient and planning shortand longterm treatments for the patients psychological social and physiological problems Before we discharge a patient from the inpatient unit we make every effort to coordinate with the patients family and the referring professional on the patients continuing outpatient care We consider this contact and coordination crucial to the success of treatment Caring for the full range of psychiatric problems our expert multidisciplinary staff includes professionals from a broad range of health care disciplines Our nurses are experienced in managing severely disturbed psychiatric patients and with psychological interventions for special populations such as the demented elderly or substance abusers Having broad experience and training in managing concurrent medical disorders they have access to the services available in general hospitals locally

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History

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The Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi is a Government of India institution and only of its nature in eastern India The British established this hospital on 17th May 1918 with the name of Ranchi European Lunatic Asylum It had then a capacity of 174 patients 92 male and 82 female It catered to the needs of the European mental patients only and it was under the direct control and management of Government of Bihar In 1922 it was put under the control of a Board of Trustees with various participating state governments represented in the Board and in the very same year its name was changed to European Mental Hospital The year 1922 is also notable for the fact that the Institute was affiliated to the University of London for the Diploma in Psychological Medicine examination It was a unique phenomenon since the postgraduate training in Psychiatry was nonexistent in India in those days

It may be worth noting that this Institute has been the most premier centre for mental health in the country and it has many firsts to its credit For example to mention only a few the first Occupational Therapy Department in 1922 ECT in 1943 psychosurgery and neurosurgery in 1947 clinical psychology and Electroencephalography EEG departments in 1948 a full fledged neuropathology section in 1952 the first use of Lithium in 1952 and chlorpromazine in 1953 A very modern radiology department with facility for sophisticated cerebral angiography pneumoencephalography air ventriculography myelography etc was established in 1954 Few other landmarks are starting a child guidance clinic in 1950 rural mental health clinic at Mander in 1967 rehabilitation centre and sheltered workshop in 1967 and industrial psychiatry unit at HEC Ranchi in 1973 It may also be noted that the Indian Psychiatric Society was established in 1948 because of the efforts of this Institute and it is registered in Patna The first draft of the Bill that subsequently became the Mental Health Act of India 1987 was written at CIP Ranchi in 1949 by Dr RB Davis the then Medical Superintendent Dr SA Hasib from Indian Mental Hospital Ranchi and Dr J Roy from Mental Hospital Gwaliar The latter two too had worked at CIP Ranchi at one time or other