Kerala HC directs Mental Health Centres not to place patients with suicidal tendencies nude in seclusion; issues guidelines [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court has directed the Mental Health Centres of the state to ensure that none of the patients, even those showing acute suicidal tendencies, when placed in seclusion, shall be so placed nude, unless very acute situation warrants the same.Justice Vinod Chandran, on an Interim Application filed by Human Rights NGO, also directed that clothes shall be provided of suitable material...