Overview

• Web-based access runs 24x7 via WhatsApp and QR code, offering both virtual and offline consultations.
• The program uses DSM criteria for clinical evaluation and focuses on screening, intervention, and post-intervention follow-up.
• Initial rollout includes AIIMS-Delhi, AIIMS-Bhubaneswar, and the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in Shahdara.
• AIIMS describes the app as highly secured and personalized, and institutions must approach AIIMS-Delhi to subscribe.
• Officials cited WHO and NCRB figures, noting a global death by suicide every 45 seconds and 1,70,924 such deaths in India in 2022, with 18–30-year-olds accounting for 35%.