This hospital needs to be avoided at all cost The doctors are incompetent and greedy. When we went there for the treatment of my mother we had thought it is the best hospital for mental illnesses in Delhi. But it turned out to be otherwise.
Their only intention was to keep my mother in their ward for as long as possible so that they could earn money.
My mother was suffering from vascular/ frontal dementia but they diagnosed it as depression and gave wrong medicine. They could not diagnose on the basis of the symptoms. I asked the Doctor Sonali Bali if she could be suffering from vascular/ frontal dementia and she asked my mother what she had eaten in the morning which my mother answered correctly.( Memory loss is a symptom of Alzheimer dementia and not of vascular/ frontal dementia, which any psychiatrist should know)
They also gave my mother electric shocks which is for depression which does not get treated with medicines and not for dementia. This was another way of making money irrespective of concern for getting the patient better.
I asked for my mother be examined by a neurologist in the hospital. He too could not diagnose it as dementia( either he was in competent or did not want to disagree with the line of treatment his colleague was carrying out, since it was getting the hospital money.
Sanjay Pattanayak also saw my mother, but he was quite incompetent.
The doctors were in no position to handle the difficult cases in the ward. They are working there for years because they cannot get any work outside due to their incompetence and greed.
The directive to the doctors is the keep the beds filled.
The nursing staff was also incompetent and least bothered. They were going to give my mother insulin twice. Most of them were trainee nurses