reduced the availability of staff quarters within the premises of the hospital. The existing structures lacked architectural elegance and functional utility and there was very little landscaping and sylvan surrounding. Though the structures were not very old but suffered from structural deficiencies characterized by cracks, leakage and seepage. There was excessive seepage on walls and a number of horizontal and vertical cracks in the OPD, IPD, kitchen, dining hall and OT rehabilitation unit. Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB), Goa (6th to 9th December, 2010) A new Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB) was set up by amalgamating the Department of Psychiatry of Goa Medical College with the Mental Hospital at Altinho. The Institute of Psychiatric and Human Behaviour was constructed at Bambolim at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.5 crores to provide medical and mental health care services, teaching at undergraduate and post graduate level and conduct training and research in Psychiatry. The IPHB Goa had a total land area of about 70 acres and total built area of 6850 sq. meters. There was no landscaping and the vacant space was full of wild outgrowths. The functional space of IPHB Goa included OPD waiting hall for patients and their relatives; Consultants and Residents cabins; Registration counter and waiting space at the registration counter; Record Room; ECG facility in observation/emergency room; Drug dispensing unit; Modified ECT/Recovery Room; Pathological Laboratory; Biochem laboratory; Psychological testing laboratory; Child Guidance Clinic; 2 separate open wards for male and female patients; 3 closed wards for female and 4 closed wards for male patients; Toilets/ bathrooms in each ward; Kitchen; Separate occupational therapy units for male and female patients; Rest rooms for MOs, para medical staff, nursing sister in each ward; Separate library-cum-reading rooms for faculty members and patients. There was no proper approach road to the hospital. The main road from State Guest House/Circuit House to the hospital (a stretch of 12 kms) was full of pot holes and damaged at a number of points due to heavy rains. The vacant space between the main road and the hospital had not been paved and was full of pebbles. There was no proper parking shed for general public. There was no park inside the hospital for relaxation of inmates of open wards and their family members. IPHB had taken up the work of landscaping, planting saplings suitable for the red morrum and gravelly soil of the hospital land and developing lawns through the office of the Dy. Conservator of Forests, Social Forestry, Parks and Gardens Division Panda Goa and Range Forest Officer Panaji. Suggestions · IPHB Goa should measure the physical space available for each functional 24 National Human Rights Commission