Kenya: Kenya's Troubled 60-Year Mental Health Journey

[HRW] Over a century ago, in 1910, British colonial authorities in Kenya redesigned a then-smallpox isolation center into what became the Nairobi Lunatic Asylum, a dire institution in which African patients-95 percent of the asylum's population-were kept in the worst conditions and European patients in the best. Until independence in 1963, only Europeans worked there as psychiatrists, senior doctors, and nurses.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Human Rights Kenya NGOs and Civil Society Source Type: news