Parents of Shelkovskaya children refuse to send them to Moscow
21.02.2006, 20.05
GROZNY, February 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Parents of children from the Shelkovskaya district of Chechnya, who have been diagnosed with a pseudo-asthmatic psychogenic syndrome and conversion convulsions, refuse to send them to Moscow for therapy.
“The Chechen Health Ministry decided on Tuesday to send four children, whose condition is extremely serious, to the Moscow mental health center,” ministry chief psychiatrist Sultan Alimkhadzhiyev told Itar-Tass. Yet the parents refused to send their children to Moscow with the reference to “the family situation,” he said.
Meanwhile, Deputy Director of the Serbsky Forensic Psychiatry Institute Zurab Kikalidze told Itar-Tass earlier in the day that the children should be given treatment at home rather than taken outside Chechnya.
“Mass hysteria and psychosis would be treated on the spot. We are sending a team to Chechnya for helping the therapy. The team will also give psychotherapy lectures to local schoolteachers, general practitioners and psychiatrists. By the way, their diagnosis of conversion disorder was correct,” Kikalidze said.
In his opinion, the Shelkovskaya schoolchildren experienced a psychological contagion, which caused hysteria and psychological disorders. “They need group treatment and individual therapy depending on their age,” Kikalidze said.
Eighty-seven child and adult cases of the kind were registered in the Chechen villages of Starogladovskaya, Shelkozavodskaya and Shelkovskaya last December. http://itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=3402498&PageNum=0
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