A farmer in Latur district. Manoj More In Vidarbha and Marathwada, 841 farmers have been admitted for depression in various government hospitals and 4,607 in total referred on out-patient basis for the same. The prolonged drought, with rising incidence of cases of clinical depression, has spurred fears of alcoholism among the worst-hit, resulting in a dedicated de-addiction centre to be set up in Osmanabad for the Marathwada region. Data gathered from the public health department showed 879 cases of addiction were recorded in the 14 drought-hit and suicide-prone districts of...
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