Problems in connection with the preparation and opening of the first Day Hospital in Athens are described, as well the difficulties created by local conditions. These problems are mainly related to our out-dated legislation, bureaucracy, public prejudice about the psychiatric patient, the lack of supplementary helping services and more general state care for the rehabilitation of psychiatric patients, as well as the fact that the single Day Hospital in Athens will be called upon to cover a very large sector of our population.
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