Legal Aid Office – Mental Health counseling of female inmates at Central Jail

Mar 26, 2019

Legal Aid Office

Overcrowded with limited healthcare facilities, prisons are famous sites for frequent drug abuse, tattoos, violence, rape etc. Prisons are overcrowded with limited healthcare facilities. In collaboration, Legal Aid Office and Sehat Kahani successfully screened 180 female prisoners within the Karachi Jail for mental health issues, designing a manual to connect them with mental health counsellors based on their diagnosis.

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