translate English to French: The general hospital units had the potential to enable early identification, to facilitate preventive psychiatry, and to treat a wide range of less serious psychiatric disorders.351 Unfortunately, the psychiatric units of general hospitals did not adequately serve the patient population discharged from the former psychiatric institutions.
En prenant des mesures pour retirer ces patients d’un milieu pathogène et en les réhabilitant dans la société, on espérait que la réinsertion sociale réussirait pour un grand nombre d’entre eux.