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    OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE PLANS EXTENSIVE STUDY OF PROBLEMS OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISORDERS

    ARMENPRESS
    07 April

    YEREVAN, APRIL 7, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian branch of the Open Society
    Institute plans to conduct an extensive study of social, legal and
    other rights of people with mental disorders within several next
    years. According to Anahit Papikian, who supervises health projects
    of the Institute in Armenia, no such study was conducted, though the
    need for it has matured.

    She said the study could be used as a basis for implementing various
    mental health programs.

    The Open Society Institute is already funding a Yerevan-based center
    for people with mental disorders, which renders various services
    to some forty such people. The center does not provide them with
    medications. The goal is to help people who spent a lot of time in
    mental hospitals to get integrated back into the society.

    Another center in Ashtarak gives lodgings to three such people who are
    actually homeless. Papikian said financial problems and the absence
    of government assistance are the main obstacles to expanding the
    network of such centers.
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