More than 43,000 people are still displaced amid increasingly dire reports of suicides and other mental health crises. This mental health crisis is among Derna’s most urgent needs, says Talal Burnaz the Libya Country Director at International Medical Corps, but it is also a difficult issue to address. Libya lacks trained psychologists and a culture of mental health care, he says. In Derna, families are quick to say that help is needed, but they need it "direct to the people without any middle parties," without explaining the problem exactly. But the mental health crisis continues to deepen, according to Alowami, and many among the thousands of missing people are no closer to being identified.

Source: Libya Today November 21, 2023 15:40 UTC