Her death was the impetus for the State Mental Health Programme to extend to children its psychosocial support project, originally meant for quarantined Covid-19 patients and frontline healthcare workers. The programme is called ‘Ottakkalla, Oppam Undu’ (You are not alone, we are with you). The outreach effort has resulted in over a lakh phone calls being made to students by school counsellors, who are often best placed to provide initial support and recommend further course of action. According to the Kerala government’s dashboard, 180 cases (as of July 18) have been reported for intervention by counsellors as also ASHA and anganwadi workers. Some 14,518 children have been given counselling with suicidal behaviour reported in 10 cases.