MAIMANA (SW) – Health officials in Faryab say that the significant number of people with mental illnesses visiting this hospital has worried them.
These doctors add that every month, 1,600 people come to the psychiatric department of this hospital for treatment due to mental illnesses.
Naqibullah Khatibi, a neuropsychologist at the Faryab provincial hospital in Maimana, the capital of this province, told Salam Watandar that most of the people with mental and neurological diseases who visit this hospital are between 13 and 35 years old, and most of them are women.
Due to the high number of visitors, he adds that more beds should be ensured for people with mental illnesses in this hospital. Mr. Khatibi also says that nearly 1.5% of people with mental problems and disorders in Faryab commit suicide due to their condition not being taken care of.
Naqibullah Khatibi emphasizes: “Most of the patients who come are either not treated or their requests are not taken care of. Therefore, they resort to eating poisonous substances, burning and even throwing themselves into wells.”
At the same time, some residents of Faryab say that unemployment and economic problems have caused them to have various worries causing them to suffer from mental problems.
Abdul Ghafoor, a resident of Faryab who went to the mental-neurological department of the provincial hospital due to suffering from mental problems, says: “When the lady of the house tells her husband that there is nothing in the house, the children are hungry and the man is unemployed. It is known that family members suffer from various anxieties and mental problems.”
Gholam Haider, another patient at the psychiatric department of Faryab provincial hospital, says that life’s troubles caused him to suffer from mental problems.
He adds: “War and comlications in our lives cause us to suffer from mental problems. If young people are not busy, they will be confused and hang out with all kinds of people. Everything is possible, from immigration to exposing them to drugs.”
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