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The international legion of humanists awarded psychiatry clinic in tuzla with the golden award for peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

I. Pajevic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Tuzla, School of Medicine, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
M. Hasanovic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Center Tuzla, School of Medicine, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina
A. Kopric
Affiliation:
Wolfson Medical School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Abstract

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Background and aims:

To describe the management of all necessary arrangements for the accommodation and ongoing care of the 164 displaced severe chronic psychiatric patients from the Jakes psychiatric hospital (under the control of Serbs' army) who were off-loaded on the afternoon of 28th of May, 1992 at the gates of the Psychiatry Clinic in Tuzla. during war and post war period.

Method:

Analysis of the incomplete medical records, which arrived with patients in Tuzla with analysis of the activities realized

Results:

There were 50.6% males, 147 (89.6%) were admitted to the Psychiatry Clinic in Tuzla, 86 (58.5%) were Serbs. The majority were incapable of independent living and required ongoing medical and social care: 81.6% of them had schizophrenia. Older than 50 years were 70 (47.6%) of them, thus made care more complex. Patients were found to be from all regions of Bosnia-Herzegovina. For its work and humanitarian mission and its contribution to peace, trust and co-operation, and for the maintenance of the multi-ethnic Bosnia Herzegovina, the Psychiatry Clinic in Tuzla received the golden award for peace from the International Legion of Humanists in May 1998.

Conclusion:

The employees at the Clinic carried out their duties with a high level of humanity and professionalism. They ensured that these patients received everything that was required in any given moment. It showed that goodness and humanity couldn't be beaten by evil regardless of its form or severity.

Type
Poster Session 1: Mental Health, Caregivers Issues and Social Psychiatry
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2007
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