Mental health treatment / Not all are cured

Arjana Muça, psychologist: We have seen the police take them from the street and escort them to the psychiatric hospital, but their detention is not for a long time, they are escorted to their apartments and this shows best where the problem lies in terms of people who suffer from mental health. Human resources point that leaves much to be desired in our institutions, psychiatrists we have a lower number.

According to experts, everything should start from the family, which in most cases hides the problems, which leads to aggravation of the consequences.

Arjana Muça: Family members make a very big mistake by hiding the disability of the individual. We do not have the necessary psycho-social care and support. Not only the family doctor, should be the identifier of these cases and the follower in the relevant institutions, in this we do not have it in a coordinated way.

At the Psychiatric Hospital at QSUT, there are 17 doctors and 80 beds, but the needs are even greater. Often times to hospitalize a patient another is taken out which is no longer considered an emergency and can also be treated at home.

Irena Thoma, psychiatrist: Urgent cases are when he refuses therapy, is aggressive, risks his own life and the lives of others, when he refuses to be treated on an outpatient basis, then hospitalization becomes urgent. For those who have social problems and pose urgent psychiatric problems, hospitalization is done, the more urgent is the problem of mental health in those moments. If he does not need to keep it then we do not keep it.

Just a month ago, two girls in the capital were attacked by a young man known as the terrible Denis, against whom there have been previous reports to the police for violence and the prosecution set the measure of temporary hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital.

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