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By Judith Tan
PSYCHIATRISTS and lobbyists have welcomed the decision to relax restrictions on Medisave use, as it will allow up to 20,000 people currently suffering from schizophrenia and clinical depression to dip into their compulsory medical savings to pay for treatment.
They make up the bulk of the 30,000 mentally ill patients living in the community and treated as outpatients by the Institute of Mental Health (IMH).
Most of them are on lifelong medication that can cost between $290 a year for subsidised patients and up to $1,000 a month for specialised treatment.
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