An incident in which a patient suspected of being under the influence of drugs killed a patient at Ingusheni Hospital has prompted parliamentarians to demand the provision of proper rehabilitation facilities in the country.
During a motion on drug and substance abuse reduction programs on Thursday, Nkolumane MP Desire Moyo urged government to build specific rehabilitation centers saying hospitals are not equipped to deal with drug abuse issues.
However, clinical psychologists believe that rehabilitation centers will not address the problem of drug abuse as long as the drug scourge in communities is not curbed.
According to MP Nkolumane, the increase in drug abuse is due to poverty as well as lack of job opportunities in the country, claiming that this leads to other illegal acts.
“This is also causing an increase in murder cases as well as any other crimes, including road accidents. In Bulawayo, we have Mpilo and also UBH Hospital. They are trying by all means to rehabilitate drug addicts, but those hospitals were not intended or designed,” Moyo said. To care for these addicts.
“For example, two weeks ago, where I come from Nkolumani constituency, we buried a person who died in Ingotsheni Hospital. This person was killed by a patient. The person was killed at night and was found dead in the morning. This is all because those hospitals were not intended for drug addicts.” “But for mental states.”
Moyo said the government should build specific rehabilitation centers and ensure that the private sector is allowed to contribute to this.
“The government should also encourage artistes to raise awareness about drug and drug abuse,” the lawmaker said.
In an interview with CITE, Ingusheni Hospital’s clinical director, Dr. Wellington Ranga, confirmed that “someone has died” from the institution, but explained that reducing drug and substance abuse needs more than just rehabilitation centres.
“The community is where people are supposed to live and not in Ingusheni, but if people cannot live with their relatives in the community at the end of the day and get rid of them in Ingusheni, then they start looking for things to blame us, it is very unfair. He said: “I do not agree with the concept of rehabilitation centers and it is not that they come from politicians.”
Dr. Ranga explained that society must address the reasons why people turn to drugs.
“Firstly, if you find the community trying to keep people away from their community, it means they are failing. In this case, whether they are politicians or a priest, they do not want to admit their failure and they want to turn the problem into something in advocating for a suitable rehabilitation center,” said the clinical director. “Drugs.”
“What is wrong with someone who is addicted? Is it because they are sick or the community they are in has a problem? The problem is that society and the person are sick, and if we try to take one person out of it, society will create another person. This concept or fallacy about rehab centers does not work in Anywhere.
Dr Ranga said the focus should be on solving the problem.
“Politicians have to go into the community and solve the problem where it comes from, because if you don’t sort out the root of the problem, you’re trying to address the need to say let’s create this kind of thing,” he said. Adding that would create a situation where people blame each other.
“The job is to prevent this thing from happening and this thing exists in the community because people don’t do drugs because they’re not in rehab. People do drugs because they live in a crooked community. If you don’t sort out this community, forget about rehabilitating this and that. People will be Always drunk and addicted and will be a nuisance.Site
