Bangladesh, Oct. 14 -- The government has launched a community-based mental health project to bring services to people at the grassroots level, State Minister for Health and Family Welfare M A Muhit said on Tuesday.

The initiative will initially cover around 20 upazilas, with plans to expand it to all 500 upazilas across the country within one to one-and-a-half years, he said.

"We want to implement the project over the next one to one-and-a-half years as a pilot initiative.

We want to roll it out across all 500 upazilas across the country," Muhit said. He made the remarks while addressing a seminar on mental health at the Bangla Academy in Dhaka. Aachol Foundation, Human Rights Development Centre (HRDC), Local Education and Economic D...