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NAIROBI, 3 June 2010 (IRIN) - Prolonged conflict in Somalia, especially in and around the capital, Mogadishu, has contributed to an alarming increase in the number of mental health patients, according to health officials. "There are a number of reasons why we are seeing so many mental health ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2010-06-03)
The mental health unit of the Ghana Health Service, is collaborating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to review and update the nation's mental health law, to make it unlawful to put mental patients in chains. The medical director of the Ankaful psychiatric hospital, Dr Akwasi Osei, announced this ...
Read Story at The Accra Daily Mail (2004-12-14)
By Jenni Evans Pietermaritzburg's Townhill Hospital's mental health facility predisposes its patients to human rights abuses, a reported released on Thursday said. The report, released by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, found that because of poor conditions, staff shortages and an unsuitable infrastructure, there was overwhelming neglect of patients, sexual and ...
Read Story at Sunday Times (2005-07-07)
Mental health patients at state institutions should be allowed to challenge decisions on their care and treatment, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has said. Speaking at the Weskoppies psychiatric hospital in Pretoria at a gathering of Mental Health Review Boards she said involuntary care would remain necessary for a "minority ...
Read Story at Sunday Times (2006-07-13)
An international congress on mental health ended here Thursday after recommending the definition of a measurable threshold of psychic trouble in Mauritania. Participants said the definition would help those working on mental patients to correctly assess their needs in care and treatment. h 200 delegates from Africa and Europe also ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-05-01)
An international congress on mental health ended here Thursday after recommending the definition of a measurable threshold of psychic trouble in Mauritania. Participants said the definition would help those working on mental patients to correctly assess their needs in care and treatment. Th 200 delegates from Africa and Europe also ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-04-30)
An international congress on mental health ended here Thursday after recommending the definition of a measurable threshold of psychic trouble in Mauritania. Participants said the definition would help those working on mental patients to correctly assess their needs in care and treatment. Th 200 delegates from Africa and Europe also ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-04-30)
Participants to the 4th Congress of the Association of Mental Health of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (ASMELP) have recommended on Saturday, in Luanda, that this institution fights against the stigma and discrimination of mental patients. Three hundred health technicians, including physicians, nurses, psychologists and sociologists have also ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-08-07)
HARGEISA, 7 December 2009 (IRIN) - Health officials in Somalia"s self-declared independent region of Somaliland have expressed concern over a rise in mental illness, which they attribute to post-war trauma, joblessness, drug abuse and khat use. "Mental health problems have increased in Somaliland because of several reasons; that ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2009-12-07)
BUTABIKA Mental Hospital patients are obsessed with the presidential candidates Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kizza Besigye. Hospital sources last week said the ongoing political campaigns had triggered a number of mental illnesses. Most of the patients reporting to the hospital since the presidential race kicked off in December either ...
Read Story at The Sunday Vision (2006-02-12)
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