The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, which followed The Mental Healthcare Act, 1987, ensures that every person with a ‘mental illness’ has access to mental healthcare services. It guarantees the right to affordable, good quality and geographically accessible mental health services. It says that the central or state governments must provide for or fund these services, which should be accessible irrespective of one’s gender, sex, sexual orientation, religion, culture, caste, social or political beliefs, class or ability. The Act also specifies how the admission, treatment and release of persons (including minors) in mental healthcare establishments should be carried out.
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