Two-thirds of schizophrenics in poor countries do not have treatment

Close of two-thirds of people who suffer from schizophrenic disorders in middle-income countries means and low did not have access to a proper medical treatment, according to a study published today in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (who).

The study reveals that the average annual rate of treatment of disorders schizophrenic in mental health services was 128 cases per every 100,000 inhabitants.

However, in rich countries and media, the specific treatment rate is four times greater than that of the poor countries (126 and 157 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively, to 36 per 100,000 population).

This indicates that while in developed countries most of the sick mind with treatment and follow-up appropriate, in developing countries and underdeveloped nearly two-thirds of the patients lack any specialized care, a figure that the drafters of the article they branded u000a"surprisingly high".

Addition, there are differences between countries soon developed.

While in the countries of income average 69 per cent of patients not receiving treatment, in poor Nations this figure rises to 89 percent.

The lack of access to medical facilities is one of the causes of the lack of treatment, but the study has detected that another equally important factor is the absence of psychiatrists and nurses in hospitals to treat this specific type of patients.

Also the study notes that the higher is the number of psychiatric beds in a hospital, the largest is the number of sick schizophrenics treated in this Centre.

Schizophrenic disorders are a chronic disease that affects 26 million people in the world and involving moderate disability or total of the people who the suffering.

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