The Ministry of Health is focusing on improving services at the National Psychiatric Hospital in Berbice, according to Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony.
“We have a new psychiatrist that has been relocated to the National Psychiatric Hospital. We have adequate staff at the institution, in addition to the nursing staff we have psychiatric aides that are working there. We have more than 70 psychiatric aides that would assist patients on a 24-hour basis. So, we have been constantly working to improve the facilities and the services that we offer at the psychiatric hospital,” Dr Anthony said, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
The government is now working with patients to see less institutionalisation, one of the provisions in the new Mental Health Legislation.