[NYTr] Cuban Achievements in Mental Health Praised
 
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:08:27 -0500 (CDT)


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Cuban Achievements in Mental Health Praised

Havana, September 6 (acn) Dr. Henrik Wahlberc, President of the 
Scandinavian Psychiatry Society, praised on Wednesday the attention 
given to patients with mental disorders in Cuba and called it 'an 
example for the rest of the world.'

Wahlberc, who is attending the 4th 'Psicohabana' 2007 International 
Conference that runs until Friday at the Psychiatric Hospital of 
Havana, praised the creativity of Cuban specialists and their system in 
which patients are inserted into social rehabilitation programs that 
develop their self-esteem.

The expert, who is also the head of the Department of Psychiatry at the 
University of Stockholm, highly commended the worker-patient 
relationship, which is vital for the rehabilitation of the patients, he 
said.

Wahlberc equally praised the efforts and the priority given by the 
Cuban government to these patients and expressed his interest in 
building cooperation bridges between Cuba and the Scandinavian nations 
in the field of psychiatry due to the notable development achieved by 
the island's specialists in this area.

On Wednesday, during the scientific sessions of the event, the 
President of the Cuban Psychiatry Society and of the National Medical 
Ethics Commission, Ricardo Gonzalez, gave a conference on humanism and 
health management in which stressed the importance of strengthening and 
improving inter-personal relations among members of the institutional 
team.

Psicohabana 2007 gathers together representatives from some 15 
countries and it includes the 15th edition of the Sports Festival and 
the Carnival celebration in which more than 2,000 patients from 33 
Cuban mental health institutions participate.
 
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