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Mental healthcare
July 26, 2021
With increasing violent crimes in Pakistan – some related to drug abuse – there is a need to take stock of where our country stands in terms of mental healthcare. For people to be healthy just physical wellbeing is clearly not sufficient. A strong society consists of people who are psychologically stable. It is the responsibility of the state to provide its citizens both physical and mental healthcare. In Pakistan both facilities are scarce and underfunded; with mental healthcare at a particular disadvantage. According to the WHO Mental Health Atlas 2017 profile of Pakistan, there were only 11 psychiatric hospitals in the country. There is no evidence that in the past three years the government has added any new psychiatric hospital to the tally. Even if you count a dozen such hospitals in the country, the number is too low for a population of 225 million. Per the WHO’s report, there are only three outpatient mental health facilities exclusiv
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LETTER | Managing and preventing suicide with compassion
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LETTER | Ikram Academia Malaysia gives serious attention to the news reports on suicide that have been circulated extensively on social and print media.
It gives a picture of the declining mental and emotional health of Malaysians during the pandemic.
The pandemic situation and the lockdown have given rise to negative effects on all citizens, especially to those who face mental and physical health problems, economic downturn, domestic issues, interpersonal problems and psychosocial vulnerabilities.
The Health Ministry has also reported that the number of calls on the psychosocial support line kept increasing daily.
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