Above: Aigul updating the progress of Larissa, a patient.
I am spending this week at the Outpatient Daycare Center. A psychiatrist, a psychotherapist and a social worker work there and deal with each patient individually. They also prepare group activities to treat the patients.
Patients come for therapy in order to restore their social skills that they lost by staying at a hospital for many months. Mentally disabled people in Kyrgyzstan are badly treated at the hospitals. It is said that the conditions in the hospitals are equal to torture. There has been evidence of sexual violence and abuse in the hospitals as well.
Realizing the efficiency of treating the mentally disabled outside of the big hospitals and therefore in clinics closer to home, Mental Health and Society works on convincing the government that the Outpatient approach is the better one.
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