Mental health crisis in Yemen

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
² Kabir Medical College, Gandhara University, Peshawar, Pakistan.
³ Department of Psychiatry St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Electronic address: r.ramalho@auckland.ac.nz.

Sheikh Shoib et al. Asian J Psychiatr. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct:64:102793.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102793. Epub 2021 Jul 21.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
² Kabir Medical College, Gandhara University, Peshawar, Pakistan.
³ Department of Psychiatry St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁴ Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Electronic address: r.ramalho@auckland.ac.nz.

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