State Mental Health Institute is a psychiatric hospital based in Uttarakhand, India.
It is situated in Selaqui, a part of Dehradun, Uttarakhand at National highway 72 about 25 km from main city towards Paonta Sahib.
[1] The newspaper alleged that there was only one psychiatrist to attend to the thousands of out-patients as well as all the 30 in-patients who are admitted at a time.
It also stated that this figure remained the unchanged for 4 years and the quality of care was further decreased due to the housing of involuntary patients who are usually uncooperative.
In 2013, Times of India journalist Tarun Vijay visited the hospital and wrote about the conditions in his blog.