2013年高中英语教学辅助素材：Mental-Health-Services-Absent-for-Traumatized-South-Sudanese（文本）.docVIP

JUBA, South Sudan ?South Sudan emerged as a nation in July 2011 after almost five decades of civil war with the north. But despite its bloody history, the country does not have a single psychiatrist and no option but to sedate or imprison the masses suffering from post-war trauma. At Juba抯 military hospital, the walking wounded often have scars that cannot be seen. Psychologist Amasi Ibrahim Adam says that she sees many fighters with post-traumatic-stress disorder. 揗ost of the cases are suicide. Soldiers shoot themselves with ae gun and it抯 a problem, because they are ignorant of mental illness and there are no services to console them,?Adam said. Surgeon and director of the military hospital, Peter Ajak Bullen,says that some patients like William, who was bombed on the front lines in April, are brought in by family members. But he says other traumatized soldiers can often go on the rampage to maim and kill others. 揂 soldier getting, shooting his colleagues is common, just common. Shooting in the air, shooting civilians, is common. Being violent to civilians also is common, especially for the soldiers, who have just come out of war. It抯 a common scene. In the frontline, when we go and visit, you see that there are so many cases of a colleague shooting a colleague. Just because of depression,?Bullen said. But although the hospital has bigger and better facilities than the public hospital, it has to deliver patients who do not respond to counseling and sedation there. But at a 12-bed ward in the corner of Juba Teaching Hospital, psychologist George Wani, says he has no choice but to keep patients sedated for want of psychiatric drugs. He has to use what little tranquilizers are available to calm patients down and that, if that doesn抰 work, he has to send patients to Juba抯 prison. 揟he sanitarium of Juba is inside the prison. We are not intending to admit the mentally sick in the prison, but we are obliged and we have no alternative. As in an open space, th