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Mental Health

A mental patient rinses his mouth at Jalalabad Mental Hospital in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on Saturday, March 17, 2007. Funded by Ministry of Public Health, this hospital has 20 patients now, half of them were effected by war and conflict. Five and half years after the Taliban's fall and more than two decades of war, many Afghans suffer from mental illnesses such as depression, domestic violence, anger, and drug abuse. With the lack of qualified personnel and institutions, there are only 60-bed mental hospital in Kabul, and 20 in Jalalabad, 12 in Herat, and 12 in Mazar-e-Sharif. However, Afghanistan's public health department is slowly recognizing the milder and more modern approach for mentally ill patients such as prescribing Western medicine instead of using chains.

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Life after the Taliban's Fall 2006~2007
A mental patient rinses his mouth at Jalalabad Mental Hospital in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on Saturday, March 17, 2007. Funded by Ministry of Public Health, this hospital has 20 patients now, half of them were effected by war and conflict. Five and half years after the Taliban's fall and more than two decades of war, many Afghans suffer from mental illnesses such as depression, domestic violence, anger, and drug abuse. With the lack of qualified personnel and institutions, there are only 60-bed mental hospital in Kabul, and 20 in Jalalabad, 12 in Herat, and 12 in Mazar-e-Sharif. However, Afghanistan's public health department is slowly recognizing the milder and more modern approach for mentally ill patients such as prescribing Western medicine instead of using chains.