WHO: Cambodia's Mental Health Services 'Critically Neglected'

Cambodia has some of the world’s worst mental health statistics – largely due to the effects of Pol Pot’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Yet mental health services remain underfunded and – in the words of the World Health Organization – “critically neglected." There’s little sign of that changing in the near future, in part because few Cambodian students are interested in psychiatry as a career. The psychiatric clinic at the government’s Khmer-Soviet Hospital in Phnom Penh is one of...

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