Limra Siddiqui 
An Amritsar based Private hospital gives Punjab its first mobile de addiction facility. The centre provides digital detox for adults, school children and even small kids.
The hospital was recently into light when it opened a drug de addiction centre for women 2 years back.
The idea of opening a digital detox centre came to the mind of Dr Jagdeep Pal after parents started approaching him for counselling of their mobile-addicted children.
“Parents handover their mobile phones to small childlren so that they let them work. This becomes an addiction later which results in bad and irritating behaviour. There is no medicine to get rid of the mobile phones but a restricted use or no use can improve one’s behaviour. The parents can play a big role in the digital detox of their children,” Dr Jagdeep Pal said.
Most of the parents visiting the centre are working couples who leave their children with the babysitters or give kids phones to keep them busy and not disturb the parents.
“My daughter is nine months old. I started showing her the mobile phone. Now she starts crying when I take my phone back from her. I am worried about her as the mobile phone has changed her behaviour,” Paramjit Kaur, the mother of the child, said.
Besides Amritsar, the people in Chandigarh have also started visiting the psychiatrists in PGI Chandigarh.
As described in this Article people are more prone to the digital world and this digital world created a new problem of mobile addiction today which is replacing drugs. Today people need digital detox as compared to other detoxes. This problem is mostly seen among the kids who are not even taking their meals without mobile phones. Many parents are concerned about their kids who are facing such addictions. They are taking their children to psychiatrists at various places such as Chandigarh, Amritsar etc. to help them to become emotionally healthy.
This article aptly informs the readers a severe problem which is in front of us but is ignored by us.
Phone addiction specifically in infants is increasing and can affect their wholesome development. When they spend a lot of time on phone, they are avoiding any physical activity and their eyes are also at a risk of damage since they keep phone screens close to their face.