would promote human resource development in psychiatric nursing and would increase the number of qualified and trained staff nurses for the hospital. Five staff nurses had been trained in Psychiatric nursing at NIMHANS Bangalore and the rest had been trained by creating in-house training facilities by hospital management. The 21 sanctioned posts lying vacant for some times in various categories should be filled up without further delay. The State Govt. had issued orders for affiliation of Hospital of Mental Health Ahmedabad with Medical College and Hospital for 2 seats of MD Psychiatry but Hospital authorities does not appear to be enthusiastic about such affiliation and teaching cannot commence (as it has commenced at Ranchi, Jaipur, Goa, IHBAS, NIMHANS) unless the affiliation order is fully implemented. Principal Secretary, H&FW may ask authorities of Medical College and Hospital to take immediate action. Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB), Goa (6th to 9th December, 2010) The Group A and B posts were sanctioned and filled up by the Public Health Department through Goa Public Service Commission and Group C and D posts were filled up by the IPHB as and when the vacancies occurred after obtaining NOC from the Department of Personnel. The posts were advertised in local newspapers through the Department of Information and Publicity and the names were forwarded by the Employment Exchange, Margao and Panaji. There were 16 sanctioned posts in Group A, 5 in Group B, 147 in Group C and 148 in Group D and the posts lying vacant in different Groups were 4 in Group A, 1 in Group B, 10 in Group C and 4 in Group D. The 2 posts of lecturers and 2 posts of clinical psychologists had been filled up on contract basis because of non availability of staff due to shortage of officers in the cadre and poor scale of pay. Filling up of these sanctioned posts with heavy responsibility on contract basis was demoralizing and demotivating because the remuneration in the contractual appointment was much lower than regular employees and the incumbents against contractual posts were not eligible to residential accommodation and other facilities and amenities. The Matron, Assistant matron and staff nurses constituted the primary group of care givers in IPHB. There were one Matron, two Assistant matrons, 54 Staff nurses and 12 Ward sisters. The staff nurses had been getting their nursing allowance, washing allowance and uniform allowance as per government rules. There were no staff quarters for nursing staff within the hospital premises. Nursing staff was provided with the transport facilities for dropping from the hospital to the bus stand and vice versa. The IPHB was affiliated to Goa University and had PG teachers, two seats for three years course of MD and two seats for two years course of DPM. These Care and Treatment in Mental Health Institutions– Some Glimpses in the Recent Period 115