Uganda: How Mental Illness Ravages City Slums

19 December 2018

Mental illness rarely gets a burst of serious national attention in Uganda.

The norm dictates that suspected patients must seek first-line treatment in form of psychological help or see mental-health clinicians. But in Uganda that is a rarity. Some, especially in rural and slum areas, run to witchdoctors, who try to exorcise "evil spirits" in their patients, but end up furthering the progression of the mental illness.

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