NEW DELHI, Jan. 15 -- At Pune's Chaitanya Mental Health Care Centre, which runs a halfway home and day-care centre, a majority of the residents used to work at the centre's cafe and gift shop till the lockdown in March. Three of them were also training to be yoga instructors. Then the shop and cafe closed and exams were suspended.
"The residents were naturally quite upset because their work brought them some income. We plan to gradually open it. It's a small community where we have a geriatric group with co-morbidities as well. So we have to take all precautions while opening up," says Sushupati Rony, director of the centre. Through the pandemic, the centre has been home to 20 residents who are being treated for schizophrenia, bipolar diso...