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Mental health services in the Seychelles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rezaul Islam
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When I reached Seychelles to start my new job with the Ministry of Health as a consultant psychiatrist at the Victoria Hospital I had hardly any idea about the islands, let alone its mental health service. But I decided to take the job partly out of curiosity and an interest to see what psychiatry would be on a tourist island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 9: The Journal of Trends in Psychiatric Practice , September 1999 , pp. 565 - 567
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