Dr K Sekar, Professor of Psychiatric Social Work and Former Registrar will continue the Head of Centre For Disaster Management NIMHANS
Directly under the Director of NIMHANS, the disaster management team has worked 24 x 7 to help people to overcome their anxiety and doubts due to pandemic COVID -19. The helpline received approximately 4 lakhs callers and help them to solve their concerns. It is not only helped for the general public and also another helpline exclusively made for NIMHANS employees
Since the lockdown, the disaster management team under Dr.K Sekar working restlessly to solve the newly experiencing conditions due to pandemic infection.