Mental illness in Uganda: millions abandoned without diagnosis, drugs or support
Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health.
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There’s a severe shortage of drugs, trained specialists and facilities while patients also face an uphill battle to challenge the stigma around mental health conditions.
From Uganda – our Africa correspondent Jamal Osman reports, and we should warn you there are some upsetting scenes in his report.
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39 Comments
But where’s the diversity?
My heart aches
Very sad that our country has no facilities and not understanding
Call the BLM mobile.. no..huh..didn't think so. No whites involved.
This is a terrible situation for the Mentally ill and for the Famalies who have no support.The Government needs to realize Mental Health is just as important and invest more money .Locking them up does no good and doesn t change there situation, normally making it worse .Very sad.
I have mild depression mental illness is real
Bring back Idi Amin !
He would soon sort this problem out !
. . . staked to the ground, stomach slit, heated metal bowl placed above the hungry rat resting on your stomach :
the only way it can escape is through your stomach !
( mental illness ? What mental illness ? ! )
all those churches and nobody is cured
Poor babies, being a mother myself can't imagine what these parents going through and these children. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
So sad !
Take him to be prayed for in kampala prophet Samuel kakande kubiri mulago
The UK offers no help for people with mental health problems. I know this from experience it is left to the families. If you are british socially, economically and environmentally deprived the UK is worse than a 3rd world country when it comes to mental health.
The issue is Uganda has hard 30 years of bad governance. Politicians stealing money to flow right and center. This has deprived many medical drugs and heath facilities and care.
In urban areas, mental health literacy is available the problem comes in with the rural areas where by most of the people still belief in traditionalists and are not likely to change their mentally in the nearby future….
You can’t still be talking 60 years later about the failings of the colonial governments.
It’s easy to look at a sad ☹️report like this and think “…how much better of else are”😎. I am a GP. Mental health programmes here in the UK are disgustingly and exceedingly insufficiently funded at least when compared to physical healthcare facilities. The poor little lad in the report is likely on the autism spectrum, non-verbal. I have patients waiting with little or no recourse to any alternative resources, 2-3 years just for an initial mental health nurse lead autism assessment and a diagnosis. It’s truly astonishingly appalling 😱😱😱
THE MIND AND THE BODY ARE ONE
It's always another Country's problems they call us evil colonials and then want us to care about what's happening in an independent Country's health system & corruption is never to blame? Take a hike
This is due to colonialism, slavery and lack of reparations
Thats actually sad. He cant be locked away because of his mental illness.
Locking up is going to make him even more crazy 😢
He needs to be given a motorbike so he can fix it up I think that would help him
Twahala has autism and unfortunately he wasn't diagnosed early…
Take him to kakande MINISTRIES church .
Church of Prophet Samuel Kakande
Wandageya ku biri he will fine
Who knows this family and where they stay in Uganda?
And these are the people we are supposed to take into first world countries? No thanks, we've got enough problems already.
This is heartbreaking he is autistic
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Very cruel very
Why can we not work this out??? The poor HUMAN RACE CANNOT WORK OUT HOW TO ADDRESS THIS WORLWIDE PROBLEM. AT LEAST PROVIDE A SAFE PLACE AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS TO SOLVE THIS LONG TERM PROBLEM.
THOSE POOR KIDS, IT BREAKS MY HEART THERE’S NO HELP.
IT WAS SAD TO SEE THE YOUNG MAN IN A HUT, CAGED LIKE THAT,
I UNDERSTAND WHY BUT IT’S STILL SO SAD.
😢 My heart grieves for them. How sad, to be locked away because of illness.prayers that they get the help they need.❤
Mental illness runs rampant in the U.S. They walk the streets hurting innocent people. This problem needs to be addressed and find ways of helping mental problems.
Walk it off
Autism
It's so weird how these people are mentally living in the dark ages. It's like progression has come so slow for them when it comes to believing in witch doctors, demons, etc.
👨🏿🎤His rizz is unprecedented🏆. His immaculate drip…so voluminous 💧; that it alone accounts for the village's crop surviving the gyat drought this summer 👨🏿🌾. He "APimpname'Slickback" slides 🕺🏿into the town square with his balenciaga garbage bag 💰 sack filled with traditional herbs 🪴 to ward away the no game spirits of his ancestor's haters…👻
"Yeah I took your girls and put the shorties 👯♀️ in my herb sack. They mine by law as they were the property of my dead father, you fools. " What U-gan-da 🇬🇳🌍🇿🇦do about it⛹🏿♂️? "
I pray they get the help they need this is just not here it’s Everywhere and then people don’t want to accept 😭what about Counseling what about that u can’t just lock people up that’s not supporting his needs 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾