Nagpur hospital´s prescription for mentally ill: work, wage, welfare
(WorldNews India)

The scorching Nagpur heat bothers Shamsur Nizamuddin little as he walks with a sickle, chopping off leaves on a two-acre stretch of a banana plantation. The daily five to eight hours of farm labour is a break from sleeping in his ward at the Nagpur Regional Mental Hospital and also earns him Rs 3,000 stipend every month. `Once I leave this hospital, I´ll buy a shirt and a pant,` he says. `And some land for farming.` Advertising Admitted in December 2017, Nizamuddin is among the 75 mentally ill patients of the hospital to be roped in for banana, papaya and vegetable cultivation. In a first, the hospital is selling extra produce in markets. It has also been maintaining internal accounts for...