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Mental health challenge for disaster relief

Monday August 19th, 2013

Disaster relief agencies should seek to strengthen local mental health services, according to a report published today.

The report, released on World Humanitarian Day, says strong services would improve the "resilience" of communities recovering from disasters and humanitarian crises.

The World Health Organisation report says there are many good examples of how mental health services have been developed following the trauma of an emergency.

This includes services in Indonesia and Sri Lanka developed following the 2004 tsunami.

WHO assistant director-general Dr Bruce Aylward said: “In spite of their tragic nature, emergency situations are opportunities to improve the lives of large numbers of people through improving mental health services.

"We can do better for emergency-affected populations by working with the government on sustainable mental health care from the outset.”

Tags: A&E | Asia | Mental Health | World Health

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