Egypt - Study confirms 59.7% of Egyptians suffer from PTSD due to traumatic events in revolution

[sharon sanders]

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Statistics "mental health": increase visitors to the psychiatric hospitals after the revolution of January 25 .. Study Confirms 61% of Egyptians suffer mental disorders following the violence of the revolution .. And 59.7% are infected with post-traumatic stress Pkrb
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 11:54

Abbasiya Psychiatric Hospital
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Revealed statistics from the General Secretariat of Mental Health, the Ministry of Health, and obtained by the "seventh day", increasing the number of visitors to the psychiatric hospitals of the Secretariat, and the 17 Hospital, during 2011 and 2012, the years which saw the start of the January 25 revolution and the following events have, in addition to the lawlessness, which led to several violent incidents, compared with the number of patients registered in 2010. , and the number of patients attending outpatient hospital Secretariat, which provides treatment and psychological rehabilitation and addiction treatment, in the period from January to July 2012 , 221 267 patients, more than the number of patients registered during the same period in 2011

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[Sally Furniss]

Re: Egypt - Study confirms 59.7% of Egyptians suffer from PTSD due to traumatic events in revolution

The study showed that the cause of injury 61% of respondents Pkrb PTSD, is watching the violent events in the news, while 47% injured as a result of their vision of the events in the streets, while 27.8% of them wounded by their deteriorating financial situation.