Sibu Hospital: Nursing home needed for patients with mental illness

Lau (fourth from left) presenting a souvenir to Dr Annuar while others look on.

A nursing home is needed in Sibu, Sarawak, to care for patients with mental illness, says Sibu Hospital psychiatric visitors board chairman Kapitan Peter Lau Ik Yang.

He said such homes also gave mental patients a chance to acquire living skills such as learning to be independent and crafting.