Over 8 per cent of Covid patients were found suffering from mental illnesses, as per a study conducted by SevenHills Hospital. Depression, anxiety and adjustment disorder and delirium were the most common issues, as per the study recently published in D Y Patil Journal of Health Sciences.

As Covid and the lockdown took a toll on both physical and mental health, the civic-run hospital studied prevalence of mental illnesses among the patients admitted there from May to December 2020. Of the total 17,676 Covid patients admitted in the hospital during the period, 1,452 of 8.2 per cent were diagnosed with mental illnesses. Further, 1,233 of them were diagnosed with mental illness for the first time. Of all those who were found having mental illnesses, 959 were men and 493 were women.