Why are we still living in the past? Sri Lanka needs urgent and timely reforms of its archaic mental health laws.

IF 1.4 Q2 Medicine
Aruni Hapangama, Jayan Mendis, K A L A Kuruppuarachchi
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Abstract

Mental health legislation protects the rights of people with mental illnesses. However, despite major social, political and cultural changes, Sri Lankan mental health services still operate on laws enacted mostly during the British rule more than a century ago, in the pre-psychotropics era, and focusing more on the detention of people with mental illnesses than on their treatment. It is high time all stakeholders made efforts for the much-awaited new Mental Health Act to pass through parliament urgently to meet the needs and protect the rights of patients, their caregivers and service providers.

为什么我们还活在过去?斯里兰卡迫切需要及时改革其陈旧的心理健康法律。
精神卫生立法保护精神疾病患者的权利。然而,尽管发生了重大的社会、政治和文化变革,斯里兰卡的精神卫生服务仍依据主要是一个多世纪前英国统治时期颁布的法律运作,那是前精神药物时代,其重点更多的是拘留精神病患者,而不是治疗他们。现在是所有利益攸关方努力争取议会紧急通过期待已久的新《精神卫生法》的时候了,以满足患者、其护理人员和服务提供者的需求并保护他们的权利。
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BJPsych International
BJPsych International Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health
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