Sudan's unmet mental health needs: A call for action

Multiple humanitarian and economic crises in Sudan, including a 22-year civil war and the Darfur genocide in 2003, have resulted in over two million fatalities, food shortages, famine and widespread internal displacement. and the COVID-19 pandemic have culminated in the compromise of mental health s...

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Autores principales: Shoib, Sheikh, Osman Elmahi, Osman Kamal, Siddiqui, Mohd Faizan, Abdalrheem Altamih, Randa Ahmed, Swed, Sarya, sharif Ahmed, Eman Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9117552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35600171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103773
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Sumario:Multiple humanitarian and economic crises in Sudan, including a 22-year civil war and the Darfur genocide in 2003, have resulted in over two million fatalities, food shortages, famine and widespread internal displacement. and the COVID-19 pandemic have culminated in the compromise of mental health services. The Sudanese government had declared a state of emergency on October 25th, 2021 which augmented the current humanitarian crises through further restriction of access to essential services. In an effort to curb the mental health crisis, new service delivery models led by educational institutions in collaboration with non-governmental, regional and international organisations.

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