Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Butabika Mental Psychiatric Hospital has expressed concern about the increase in the number of people living with mental illness. According to Dr Juliet Nakku, the Executive Director at Butabika Mental Hospital, the most affected patients are now children and youth below the …
Read More »School of psychiatric clinical officers operating with three tutors
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts at Butabika School of psychiatric clinical officers have asked the government to hire more tutors. Dr. Juliet Nakku, the Executive Director at Butabika Mental Hospital said the school is grossly understaffed with only three tutors and the principal. She said that if adequate staffing is …
Read More »Psychiatric health officers urged on own Mental Health
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mental health workers have been urged to periodically do a mental health assessment for wellness as they go about their work. State Minister for Higher Education John Chrysostom Muyingo says that owing to the high and growing threat of mental illness, the ministry has started …
Read More »Russia accuses Pentagon of experimenting on patients in Ukraine
Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | The Russian military said that it had obtained new information revealing details of “the Pentagon’s inhuman experiments on Ukrainian citizens” in a psychiatric hospital in Ukraine’s Kharkov region. “The main category of the experimental subjects was a group of male patients aged 40-60 with a …
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