FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): The provincial hospital in western Farah province has registered 712 mental illness cases during the past one month, an official said on Saturday.
Doctor Salahuddin Ahadi, an official of the provincial hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News: “We received up to 50 mentally ill patients on a daily basis during the past month and registered a total of 712 psychiatric cases”.
Ahadi said 367 of the patients were women and still 21 patients remained hospitalized receiving treatment.
He added they had a separate ward in the hospital for mentally-ill patients and a psychiatrist and his two assistants . . .
