Patients with mental illness need to wait up to more than three years to see a doctor at public hospitals because medical manpower has failed to meet surging demand for such services.
A review of official statistics for the past five years by the Post found 225,900 psychiatric patients had been treated in public hospitals as of December 2015, a 20 per cent increase, but doctors treating them grew by only 3 per cent to 344 last year.
Furthermore, only two community psychiatric nurses – who...
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