Somaliland faces ‘explosion’ of mental health conditions [TheGuardian.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/22/1612:00 PM

Amina usually takes her brother to the clinic by force. He doesn’t like going. “I feel very bad when I take him there. I have to do it but I cry at the same time,” says the young mother who lives in downtown Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway republic of Somaliland.

“We have no choice but to take him. What else can we do for him?” Amina* adds, visibly pained.

Her 38-year-old brother Bulhan* has on four occasions been admitted to the Macruuf Relief Organisation, a privately run mental health clinic in Hargeisa, one of many that have been established in recent years.

[For more of this story go to http://www.theguardian.com/glo...al-health-conditions]

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