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Curfews & lockdowns can lead to a pandemic of mental ill-health– Dr Beaubrun

- said people with chronic diseases are especially affected
Dr Tanya D. Beaubrun, right, a Family Practitioner in St Lucia, said long term curfews and lockdowns could lead to a pandemic of mental ill-health. Photo: Facebook
Dr Tanya D. Beaubrun said persons should become vaccinated, boost their immune systems, eat the right foods, exercise and follow the government protocols. Photo: Getty Images/File
Dr Tanya D. Beaubrun said persons should become vaccinated, boost their immune systems, eat the right foods, exercise and follow the government protocols. Photo: Getty Images/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Dr Tanya D. Beaubrun, Family Practitioner in St Lucia, said long term curfews and lockdowns could lead to a pandemic of mental ill-health.

Dr Beaubrun said during an Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) simulcast on Sunday, September 26, 2021, "We are small islands with limited resources, our health care services are already overburdened, our health care workers are already overworked, our economies are unstable, people's livelihoods are still in limbo and we can't take much more, and I will tell you, we are not good.

"The longer we stay in curfews and lockdowns and isolated, we face another issue that we are not looking at, it is a pandemic of mental ill-health! Because people are stressed and anxious and worried and these things are exacerbating our patients with chronic diseases," she stated.

Get vaccinated & boost immune system- Dr Beaubrun

Meanwhile, Dr Beaubrun said persons should become vaccinated, boost their immune systems, eat the right foods, exercise and follow the government protocols.

She said the notion of being young and healthy is not enough to beat the virus.

"Some of the patients who were critically ill were some of the patients I thought were actually healthy. So those patients of mine who got COVID-19 and had to be hospitalised or were critically ill were those that I thought were in pretty good shape, so I don't think we have the luxury of saying things like 'I am a healthy young person". We just don't know, because of how the virus attacks our every cell in every critical area of the body, the lung, the brain, the heart, you don't know at which point your body is going to give way," she said.

The simulcast was streamed on the VI's Government social media page and was entitled: COVID-19 Vaccines: A dose of the facts.

There were other speakers who encouraged persons to become inoculated to give themselves a fighting chance against the COVID-19. They were Antigua's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Rhonda Sealey- Thomas; Grenada's CMO, Dr Shawn Charles and Head of the Health Promotions in Dominica, Nurse Mignon Rolle-Shillingford.

14 Responses to “Curfews & lockdowns can lead to a pandemic of mental ill-health– Dr Beaubrun”

  • lol (27/09/2021, 14:42) Like (19) Dislike (1) Reply
    Can is an understatement......
  • bushman (27/09/2021, 15:17) Like (18) Dislike (0) Reply
    I know that long time and i'm no doctor
  • prisoners (27/09/2021, 15:38) Like (11) Dislike (17) Reply
    So what about the prisoners they on Curfew & lockdown everyday. So what you really saying, they mental ill don't matter right?
    • @Prisoners Nonsense? (28/09/2021, 02:28) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
      People in prison did something wrong and been in prison is their punishment. The Government make laws to lockdown we innocent people against our will that did no wrong is a huge differentce , the inability to move freely, the inability to work and provide for yourself and your family can be mentally straineous..
      • hello? (28/09/2021, 11:49) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        you are soo wrong!!. SO the prisioners don't have a right to freely move about and provide for themselves?
  • hmmm (27/09/2021, 15:59) Like (3) Dislike (4) Reply
    Sound like she need some if u ask me
  • joseph (27/09/2021, 16:18) Like (14) Dislike (1) Reply
    can we push pass covid 19 its over 1 year because covid 19 and its effects will be with us for a long time. we can not sweep covid under the rug but try to switch the conversation(covid is becoming to depressing)
  • facts (27/09/2021, 17:01) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
    Thats the outcome of locking down people against their will.
  • malone (27/09/2021, 19:15) Like (10) Dislike (0) Reply
    SOCIETY IS COLLAPSING AND PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE REASON THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE MENTALLY ILL IS THAT THEY'RE LIVING IN A SYSTEM THAT'S NOT DESIGNED TO SUIT THE HUMAN SPIRIT- JIM CARREY
  • @ prisoner (27/09/2021, 20:13) Like (9) Dislike (0) Reply
    HOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE KILLED / OR HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT ELSE THESE GUYS ARE GUILTY OF ? / ONLY
    WHEN THEY MESS WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE THAT WILL DO THE SAME TO THEIR FAMILY IN REVENGE , PERHAPS THEY WILL GET THE MESSAGE THEN
  • Well I guess so (27/09/2021, 21:07) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
    Not only the curfew, Tortola is a one horse town. Even without a curfew, there is nothing to do. Only thing is bars and strip clubs. The high end restaurants where you can sit down and have a nice dinner and have a nice night out Tortola people don’t do that.
    • The biggest mistake done to human (28/09/2021, 02:38) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
      Locking us down in the earlies when ee had one and two cases wete the biggest oppressive move by our leaders, not leaders our followers, Kill the economy, dry the treasury paying a heap a lazy for no work, create unnecessary hard ship for people and families. Lockdown in the early days was a huge over reach, over reaction, That was the time to encourage and enforce public safety protos, The unnecessary locksown back then with one or two cases all end up been Zero, Nort, Why no lockdown when cases are in the countries,,.They now realuze lock down is not the solution,, ,.Locksown is like hiding from the wind,, We have to live with Covid, coexist in a safe and respinsible way....
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  • Stupe (28/09/2021, 02:09) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
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