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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Shortage of psychiatrists in Masindi District has impacted the treatment of mentally ill and related disease patients, as most cases are usually transferred to the neighboring Hoima Regional Referral Hospital.<\/p>\n

Masindi District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Jino Abiriga told Monitor <\/b>that the district of over 300, 000 people has only five psychiatrists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is very little considering the increasing population of people who need psychiatric help in the district,\u201d Dr. Abiriga observed.<\/p>\n

Monitor<\/b> understands that all the five psychiatrics in the district are deployed at either Masindi Main Hospital or Bwijanga health center 1V.<\/p>\n

Dr Abiriga now suggests that there is a need to have more psychiatrists at every health center unit in the district to extend services to people in rural areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shortage of psychiatric personals and drug stock out are the leading challenges towards solving mental health related challenges in Masindi,\u201d he said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Masindi District now has a psychiatric doctor to patients ration of 1:1,000, according to official data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is need for enough public sensitization since in most cases people in Masindi go to witch doctors to treat mental illnesses. That is a challenge to our department,\u201d Dr Abiriga added.<\/p>\n

But for medical personnel Henry Musinguzi noted that there several complicated factors leading to growing mental health disorders.<\/p>\n

“This can be drugs and alcohol use, social disadvantages like poverty, longtime stress and many others but we encourage any person with such signs to visit a nearby health unit,”Mr Musinguzi said<\/p>\n

Mr Rogers Kanti, a health activist in Masindi urged government to incorporate mental healthcare into the primary healthcare system to enable the local health centers treat mental health disorders in their localities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis should go by increasing the budget of primary health care and employing more psychiatric experts in lower health units,\u201d he told Monitor<\/b> on December 4.<\/p>\n

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