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INSIDECOSTARICA.COM | CENTRAL AMERICA NEWS BRIEFS | Tuesday 22 February 2011

Belizean Nurses to Receive Professional Training in Mental Health

Belmopan - The Belizean Public Health Ministry will train 170 nurses coming from rural zones of Belize, with the necessary techniques to diagnose and take care of patients with psychiatric problems in their respective communities.

Claudina Cayetano, from the Belizean Public Health Ministry, said the course will be developed starting February 24, up to May 27 at the University of the West Indies in the city of Belize.

The training will give the participants the necessary knowledge and abilities to treat mental disorders in rural and difficult zones of the country much better.

Belize only has 22 nurses and 2 doctors practicing in psychiatry, and the program will include multiple activities adapted to places with little medical resources to identify, handle and treat illnesses such as depression, epilepsy and others.

The project is expected to reduce stigmatization and discrimination of individuals with mental illnesses.

According to estimates from the World Health Organization, one of each four people in the world is suffering mental disorders in a moment of his or her life.

Most of the countries only assign less than 2 percent of the available funds for the sanitary sector to psychiatry.

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