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The mental health policies of Trinidad and Tobago

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hari D. Maharajh  and
Akleema Ali
Hari D. Maharajh
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mt Hope, Trinidad, West Indies, email drharim@carib-link.net
Akleema Ali
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies
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The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is the most southerly of the Caribbean island states. Trinidad is just 14 km from the coast of Venezuela. Trinidad covers an area of 4828 km2 while Tobago, the sister isle, has an area of 300 km2. The total population is approximately 1.3 million; 40.3% of the population is of East Indian descent, 39.6% of African descent, 18.4% mixed and 1.7% belong to other ethnic groups (Central Statistical Office, 2001). St Ann's Hospital in Port of Spain, the capital, was established in 1900 and is the country's only psychiatric hospital. There are two general hospitals, one in the north, at Port of Spain, and the other in the south, at San Fernando.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , July 2004 , pp. 13 - 16
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