VietNamNet
Bridge – Vietnam currently has only one
mental doctor per 100,000 residents. Some provinces have only one mental
physician, not a single mental doctor.
Clinics
at commune and ward levels do not have mental doctors, while other nurses and
doctors do not have specialized knowledge of mental diseases, said Ass. Prof.
Tran Huu Binh, former dean of the National Mental Health Institute, at a recent
seminar.
La Duc
Cuong, director of the Hanoi-based Central Psychiatric Hospital, said that
Vietnam lacks policies to attract doctors to mental hospitals. Low income and
hard work prevent mental hospitals, particularly provincial hospitals, from
sufficiently recruiting doctors.
“Vietnam
aims to raise the rate of mental doctors to two per 100,000 residents. Thus,
the country still lacks 800 doctors. We train around 100 mental doctors
annually so we need at least 14 years to reach the 2/100,000 rate. During this
time, some doctors will retire. If we do not have a specialized training plan,
this goal will not be achieved,” Mr. Cuong said.
Experts
also said that the society’s understanding of mental diseases is short. Many
families that have mental patients do not know basic knowledge about the
disease.
A
national survey of Vietnamese youth and juvenile in 2008 shows that of over
10,000 young people, over 73 percent used to be bored and over 4 percent used
to think of suicide. These rates are higher than those in 2003.
Le Ha
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