The National Institute of Mental Health at Angoda is calling upon well-wishers to donate essential items to its 476 male and female residential patients.
Its management said clothing, soap, toothpaste, razors, sanitary napkins, footwear as well as medicines were much needed.
Further details can be obtained via telephone no. 1926.
The hospital is burdened by patients who are cured, but their relatives unwilling to take them home, a spokesman has told ‘Divaina’ newspaper.