Treating mental illness with medicine and religion in India

In India, about 100 million people are believed to suffer common mental disorders and millions more have more severe illnesses, With just 5,000 psychiatrists in the country, faith healers have filled the gap. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how health professionals have joined forces with faith healers to combine medicine with ritual and prayer.

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