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A Psychiatric Day Care Service in Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. Dhadphale  and
S. P. Shaikh
M. Dhadphale
Affiliation:
University of Nairobi
S. P. Shaikh
Affiliation:
Central Hospital, Ndola
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Since independence in sub-Saharan Africa, decentralization of psychiatric services has been accepted as a policy, but it has resulted so far only in developing small units attached to the provincial hospitals. Because of the shortage of qualified psychiatrists, the latter are invariably staffed by locally trained psychiatric or sometimes general nurses. With one or two exceptions most of the mental hospitals were built in the colonial times and they often resemble penal institutions and are geared mainly to offering custodial care.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , February 1981 , pp. 23 - 24
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