A GROWING NUMBER of Barbadian women are being cut down by depression, but many are concealing it from family and friends because of stigma and embarrassment.
And yesterday Minister of Health John Boyce said Government was this year putting $30.5 million of the health budget at the disposal of the main psychiatric care facility in Black Rock, St Michael, to address mental health care provision.
In addition, he said the Ministry of Health’s National Mental Health Commission and enhanced infrastructural development at the Psychiatric Hospital would be used to push awareness of mental health issues.
Boyce was addressing the opening of a World Health Day fair hosted by the Lions Club of Barbados under the theme Depression: Let’s Talk at Church Village Green, The City. (LK)
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