Now, the hospital management has decided to rehabilitate such people by imparting training to make them self-employed. “Our sole aim is to make them skilled so that they can earn a living,” said RINPAS Director N N Agrawal.

The official records of RINPAS reveal that there are 80 such patients — both male and female — who, after being “cured” of their ailment, face the trauma of being rejected by their families lead a nightmarish life inside the mental hospital. In certain cases, such “patients” end up spending more than two-three decades here.

In several cases, the RINPAS officials have found that the addresses mentioned by parents and family were false. There have been cases where parents had even refused to recognise their wards. Admitted Dr Tripathi, who was associated with RINPAS, “There’s a stigma attached to mental patients.”