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The reconstruction of psychiatric services after the liberation of Kuwait

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mohammed Aly Aref*
Affiliation:
Kuwait Psychological Medicine Hospital, PO Box 4081, Safat, Kuwait
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In this paper I describe my experience of restructuring psychiatric services after the Iraqi invasion. It is difficult, if not impossible, to find words to describe the frustration, bitterness, sorrow and disappointment in seeing the collapse of a service that had been built up by the strenuous efforts of psychiatrists.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992
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