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Mental health in Yemen: “The number of severe cases is astonishingly high

Now in its seventh year, the crisis in Yemen is no longer headline news. But the conflict continues to have a devastating impact on people’s wellbeing, and on their mental health in particular. MSF focuses on mental health services in several of its projects, including Al-Gamhouri Hospital in Hajjah city, in northwestern Yemen, and Dhi As Sufal Hospital in Ibb. In Hajjah, after six years treating the war wounded, victims of road traffic accidents and other kinds of trauma, as well as supporting the intensive care unit, emergency room, operating theatre, inpatient ward for adults, maternity ward, and mental health services in the hospital, MSF ended its support to the hospital to shift the focus to providing free, high quality mental health services. Among the services offered include psychosocial and psychiatric care to the patients suffering from mental health disorders.

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