The World Health Organization considers mental health as “a fundamental human right and an essential element for personal, community and socioeconomic development” In Venezuela, the crisis that the country is experiencing and the psychosocial vulnerability make it difficult to access this right. Psychiatric patients require high-cost medications that are in short supply in the country (almost always accessible through insurance and private clinics) and need adequate hospital structures with trained health personnel.
Without a doubt, Antor continues, “psychiatric hospitals are the great forgotten ones”