SM Yasir Arafat
Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Bangladesh
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Psychiatry
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) is an important option in were selected purposively and reviewed the EMS request health care delivery system which can reduce morbidity and forms and hospital discharge certificates of the respective mortality. Though emergency medical service (EMS) service patients. Among the patients, the common diagnoses were available for physical illness, still absent for mental illness Schizophrenia (34.7%), Substance Related Disorders (18.8%), in government sector. Bangladesh is one of the developing Bipolar Disorders (15.8%) and Personality Disorders (12.9%). countries in Asia which just transformed from low income Very few patients were admitted from rural background. There status to lower middle income. The prevalence of psychiatric is lack of integrated national EMS system and some private disorders in adult is 6.5 to 31% but the government expenses initiatives provided for medical and psychiatric patients. It is an 0.06% of the total budget in mental health sector and the urgent need of further research in this field to identify limits mental health act is yet to be approved. This cross sectional and strength of the emergency medical service system as well study intended to observe the demography and distribution as the integration and expansion of the service in government of diagnosis of patients of two private hospitals who were and private hospitals can be an effective option for addressing hospitalized involuntarily via EMS. Two psychiatric hospitals the mental health emergencies across the areas.
SM Yasir Arafat is working as Psychiatrist in Department of Psychiatry, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.