KUCHING: Sarawak is much more in urgent need of psychiatrists than mental health clinics.
"At the moment, there is a psychiatric unit in Kota Sentosa Hospital and also a psyciatric unit within Sarawak General Hospital.
"Out problem is not so much of health clinics. They are adequate for the time being. What we need is not more mental health clinics but more psychiatrists". Public Helath Assistant Minister Dr Jerip Susil told The Borneo Post yesterday in response to Mental Health Promotion Advisory Council member Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye's call to set up community mental health centres in every state.
He said the state should only set up as many mental health clinics as it needed once it had enough psychiatrists.
Stressing that psychiatric appointment was the purview of the federal government, the state assemblyman for Bengoh said the shortage was due to the lack of interest from doctors and senior medical officers...
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