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Medicine shortage forces doctors to sedate patients to avoid attacks

Supplies held up by tender quarrels
The lack of medication for mentally-ill patients has increased violent behaviour medical staff must cope with on a daily basis.
Tuyeimo Haidula
  • 8 Month Ago - 2024-05-17 00:05:00
Doctors and nurses at the Oshakati State Hospital have resorted to sedating mentally-ill patients to avoid being assaulted. This due to a severe lack of psychotropic medication, wh
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Nam 2.22 SAME | Oryx Properties Ltd 12.1 UP 1.70% | Paratus Namibia Holdings 11.99 SAME | SBN Holdings 8.45 SAME | Trustco Group Holdings Ltd 0.48 SAME | B2Gold Corporation 47.34 DOWN 1.50% | Local Index closed 677.62 UP 0.12% | Overall Index closed 1534.6 DOWN 0.05% | Osino Resources Corp 19.47 DOWN 2.41% | Commodities: Gold US$ 2 867.57/OZ UP +0.92% | Copper US$ 4.45/lb UP +2.53% | Zinc US$ 2 806.80/T UP 0.01% | Brent Crude Oil US$ 75.27/BBP DOWN -0.0183 | Platinum US$ 1 010.03/OZ UP +0.91%


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