Despite efforts to alleviate the mental healthcare challenges across the continent, a lot remains to be done. Robin Hammond highlights this with his 'CONDEMNED' project:
Where there is war, famine, displacement, it is the most vulnerable that suffer the greatest.
image courtesy of Robin Hammond
Abandoned by governments, forgotten by the aid community, neglected and abused by entire societies. Africans with mental illness in regions in crisis are resigned to the dark corners of churches, chained to rusted hospital beds, locked away to live behind the bars of filthy prisons.
Some have suffered trauma leading to illness. Others were born with mental disability. In countries where infrastructure has collapsed and mental health professionals have fled, treatment is often the same – a life in chains...[continue reading]
