Nearly 9 million people in Viet Nam, or 10 per cent
of the population, suffer from mental disorders, including 2.5 per cent with
serious mental illnesses under social protection.
The figures were released last
week at a conference on social assistance and rehabilitation for people having
mental illness and mental disorders, held by the Department of Social
Protection under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA),
in the northern Hoa Binh Province.
Changes in lifestyle, economic
development, and natural disasters, apart from environment pollution and
limitations of social work service system are causing mental disorders and
mental illnesses in an increasing number of people.
Rendering social assistance is
difficult due to the deficient quantity and poor quality of facilities and
services.
To Duc, deputy director of
MoLISA's Department of Social Protection said, the country has 31 centres of
social protection, care and rehabilitation for psychotics.
The number of centres is expected
to reach 50 by 2020, according to a scheme by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids
and Social Affairs. — VNS
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