LIBREVILLE, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) – Mélen de Libreville’s psychiatric ward, the only one of its kind in Gabon, registers an average of 800 admissions each year due to mental illness, Health Minister Guy Patrick Obiang said on Friday.
In Gabon, the mental illness situation has become very alarming because of the reception capacity for the mentally ill, accentuated by the consumption of psychotropic substances such as cannabis, indicate local observers.
The main pathologies notified in hospitalization are acute delusional psychoses representing 53.5% of cases, schizophrenia (22.3%), bipolar disorders in the manic phase (16.1%) and chronic hallucinatory psychoses (6.8%). ), specified the minister.
He pointed out that in the process of healing the mentally ill, their families played an important role, while health workers lamented their abandonment. End
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