eMaanasi Model
What We Do
“Intervention through Medical care can make a change and a difference because a woman’s health stands at the core of the family, the family stands at the core of the village and the village stands at the core of our society. That is where the whole idea of Maanasi Story germinated”
– Ramesh Bulchandani
Comprehensive Community
Mental Health Care Initiative
Today, Project Maanasi at Mugalur and HSIS are serving women, men, and children with varying degrees of mental illness by providing medical care, medicines, and mental care education for patients from 206 villages, 8 districts around Bangalore with a reach of 6 million households.
With over 20 years of sustained efforts by Dr. Geetha and a team of doctors from St. Johns Medical College at Project Maanasi established a successful model for implementing a comprehensive community psychiatry program in rural India. Rural mental health care takes care of cultural congruence; integrates primary care and local community workers for its success.
The Maanasi Model is based on an extensive study done in the context of Rural India.
