We started providing them with medications. During the war, it was only counselling. We did not have a lot of the drugs that were badly needed for depression, anxiety, PTSD and so forth. Now we have the ability to provide electric shocks in some cases for deep depression and anxiety, and all of these kinds of methods to treat deep depression. We have educated and trained nurses in mental health and psychosocial support.
In Syria, unfortunately, there is a big lack, dating even from before the war, in a psychiatry as a specialty. That was an issue. We were lucky to have a lot of Canadian psychiatrists volunteering online through telemedicine to treat thousands of patients that way through this hospital.