SA's mental health services inadequately resourced

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has acknowledged that mental health services have and continue to be inequitably distributed, fragmented and inadequately resourced and characterised by significant provincial variability in South Africa.

"The results of the 2008 survey by the College of Medicine show that in the public sector, in Mpumalanga province, there was one psychiatrist and 111 in Gauteng, out of a total of 302 public sector psychiatrists.