Malawi: Poor Funding Crippling Mental Health Services in Malawi

5 November 2018

A mental health specialist says inadequate funding is one of the factors which is crippling delivery of mental health services in the country.

Speaking last week at Chiwaza in Nkhata Bay District during World Mental Health Commemoration Day, Director of Zomba Mental Hospital, Immaculate Chamangwana said her department does not have adequate psychiatric drugs and infrastructure required for management of the mentally ill patients.

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