Mental health reform in Fiji and opportunities for training assistance

M. Parameshvara Deva

doi:10.1192/S1749367600004343

Mental health reform in Fiji and opportunities for training assistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018

M. Parameshvara Deva

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M. Parameshvara Deva*: Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sg Long Campus, Ceras, Malaysia, email [email protected]

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Fiji inherited a British colonial healthcare system. In 2010 the long dormant mental health law was replaced by the Mental Health Decree (MHD), which set up divisional mental health units for the purpose of managing mental health problems outside of the old asylum. The Ministry of Health recruited an overseas consultant to help improve training. Under the MHD, stress management wards, stress management clinics and stress management day centres have been set up, to decentralise and deinstitutionalise psychiatric care. These are on the whole doing reasonably well and have good client acceptance.

Type: Thematic papers
Information: International Psychiatry , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , May 2014 , pp. 36 - 38

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