Malawi, a nation with a population of 12 million, currently has no psychiatrists, social workers and psychologists in the government psychiatric services. The backbone of the psychiatric health services are senior enrolled psychiatric nurses who are helped by 4 psychiatric clinical officers, and 10 registered psychiatric nurses. One district, however, receives Psychiatric services from a missionary order, The St. John of god. God, who provide an excellent needs based multidisciplinaryy mental health care by a team of clinical officers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors, community health workers and rehabilitation assistants. It will be argued that this model should provide a framework to the government of Malawi for planning and provision of nationwide mental health services.
J. Tugumisirize :MULTIDISPLINARY APPROACH IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE – A MALAWI EXPERIENCE
MULTIDISPLINARY APPROACH IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE – A MALAWI EXPERIENCE _ J. Tugumisirize _ University of Blantyre, Malawi