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Haiti - Health : Deplorable situation in the area of mental health 04/06/2012 12:58:19
"Mental illness is a phenomenon that is not quite accepted and tolerated by many people of the Haitian population. It constitutes a category of diseases for which today we continue to have value judgments and discriminatory attitudes. There is a preponderance of physical health at the expense of the mental health [...] Having psychological problems in Haiti, it is being exposed to abandonment, isolation, as if there was no hope. Indeed, as soon as a person suffers from a mental disorder, the first explanation is mostly supernatural. For some, the patient is possessed [...] After having all tried elsewhere without finding solutions, these mentally ill are abandoned in the streets, given the lack of psychiatric center to accommodate them. Note also that other patients, by lack of attention by their families, fled without that nobody search for them [...] A report published in 2011 by the Assessment Instrument for Mental Health System (AIMS), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), which is intended to compile the basic data for assessing the system mental Health, has presented the number of professionals working in the field of the mental health in Haiti. The country has 27 Doctors Psychiatrists (0.28 psychiatrist per 100,000 inhabitants). The majority 70% (19) is engaged exclusively in private or NGO, 30% (8) working in public and private structures; 14 physicians not specialized in psychiatry {0.14 per 100,000 population), 36 nurses (0.38 per 100,000) 194 Psychologists (2 per 100,000 population) and 82 Social Workers (0.86 per 100,000 population) and 1 OT-Neurologist. In reading these data, we can only note that there is an acute shortage of professionals in this field in Haiti. POHDH believes that the situation of the mentally ill is inconceivable in this 21st century marked by the advancement of human rights in some countries and the progress of certain scientific disciplines such as psychology arriving to explain the evolution of certain mental disorders and thereby , propose some methods to solve or cope with some problems. POHDH remember that there are in Haiti two public institutions neuro-psychiatric : the Hospital Défilée of Beudet and the University Hospital Center Mars et Kline. According to the report of the AIMS / WHO, these two institutions are in a state of disrepair and there is no availability of community follow-up treatments. Recall that on October 10, during the International Day of Mental Health, the government, through the First Lady, Sophia Martelly took the initiative to launch the operation "Tèt poze, Kè poze" which consisted of identifying the mentally ill in the streets for a support to the center Beudet. A toll-free, the 177 was made available to the public to report the presence of patients across the country. The government also promised to strengthen existing centers and of create new psychiatric centers. However, the presence of the mentally ill in the streets persists in the streets and so far the number 177 does not work. We still has not noticed the construction of other psychiatric centers in the country, or the strengthening of those existing. To this end, POHDH believes imperative to address these recommendations to the concerned authorities, asking them:
See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3996-haiti-health-sophia-martelly-in-favor-of-a-mental-health-public-policy.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3988-haiti-health-less-than-20-psychiatrists-for-more-than-10-million-people.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-4075-haiti-health-first-results-of-the-operation-tet-poze-ke-poze.html HL/ HaitiLibre
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