Every fourth person maybe mentally ill in Armenia – web site
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6 Dec 04
“There are 30,000 mentally ill people in Armenia. Every fourth healthy
person may have a mental disorder. A lot of [mentally] ill people
are on the streets, but not all of them are registered,” the chief
psychiatrist of the Armenian Health Ministry, Samvel Torosyan, told a
roundtable on “Problems of the mental health policy in Armenia” today.
Forty-five Armenian public organizations set up a coalition “For
mental health” and are fighting for the health of the mentally
retarded. Statistics show that poverty is to blame for mental
disorders.
Armenia doesn’t have a law on mental health yet. “The main spheres
of preserving mental health are funding, purchasing and distributing
medicines, laws, human rights and organizing services,” the chairman
of the Mental Health Foundation, Arman Vardanyan, said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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