The depressions caused by the effects of the economic crisis have overwhelmed psychiatric hospitals in Romania. Elsewhere in the news, 20 years after the Revolution, Romanian ex-president Emil Constantinescu talks about the relationship between the great powers and their effects on East Europe. Last but not least, one out of four Romanians are obese, reveals a WHO study.
The depressions caused by the effects of the economic crisis have overwhelmed psychiatric hospitals in Romania, Cotidianul reads. The Psychiatry Hospital "Socola" from Iasi (East), one of the biggest mental institutes from the country, has seen their number of patients increase by 520%. The inability to pay the credit rates and unemployment have triggered a record increase in the number of patients, according to the unit's manager Dr. Catalin Scripcaru.
Tens of bankrupt business people have developed depressions. Doctors say that, despite the medical treatment, the social cause produceing the condition needs to disappear for the patient to get better. The number of patients trying to commit suicide is going up as well, with most of the attempts being registered in men.
The same phenomenon is recorded with "Prof. Dr. Alexandru Obregia", the biggest mental hospital in the country, from Bucharest. Here, a number of 30.000 hospitalisations can be dealt with annually. Dr. Radu Mihăilescu says that anxiety has risen among people, with unemployment underlined as the main cause. The same situation is recorded with "Dr. Constantin Gorgoş" psychiatric hospital, also from the capital. Many patients approaching this institution fear that a hospitalisation would make them unemployable. That is why they take the treatment home.
According to the Romanian Sanitary Centre for Statistics, there were 251,525 mentally disturbed patients registered with GPs last year. Most
