Mental Health Worries Experts

FRONT PAGE vocational NATIONAL MORE people are likely to suffer from mental illness, further training – EDITORIAL impeding their ability to learn and engage in productive Mandy LOCAL NORTH activities, health experts have warned. LOCAL EAST Gandesha’s wife to LOCAL WEST Senior consultant psychiatrist Dr. Fred Kigozi told over 50 account for LOCAL CENTRAL participants, mainly senior medical doctors, that the sh6b COLUMNISTS connection between mental ill-health and poverty posed a LETTERS colossal threat unless both were addressed concurrently. Donors urged RASTOON to give SPORT Kigozi, who is also the director of Butabika Mental Hospital in orphans BUSINESS Kampala, said while mental illness impeded people’s ability to capital MUSEVENI'S ADDRESS engage productively in their economies, poverty on the other NRM students OPINION hand increased the risk for developing mental disorders. blocked from WOMAN ACHIEVER launching WEEKLY “Poverty even reduces their ability to gain access to group WOMAN promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative mental BUSINESS VISION health interventions,” he said. Police arrests HEALTH AND BEAUTY hardcore city criminals EDUCATION He was speaking at the launch of the Mental Health and ENVIRONMENT Poverty Project at Grand Imperial Hotel, Kampala yesterday FARMING on Wednesday. WEEKEND

HAVE YOU HEARD The five-year project will be conducted in Uganda, Ghana, CRAZY WORLD Zambia and South Africa to break the cycle of poverty and

BOOKS AND ART mental ill-health. It is funded by the British Department for SPECIAL REPORT international Development. CHILDREN'S VISION PEOPLE, PLACES WHO country representative Dr. Merville George said ill- FOOD GUIDE health was the leading cause and consequence of poverty, RELATIONSHIPS adding that more Ugandans were at risk of developing mental INTIMATE and neurological disorders due to disease and psychological ENTERTAINMENT trauma related to complex emergencies such as wars and SOCIETY unemployment. LOCAL LEADER ESSENCE Participants demanded that mental policies and legislations TOTAL MAN be integrated into the health system and specific measures WOMAN ACHIEVER taken to protect the rights of people with mental and 2009 neurological disorders. UGANDANS MAKING A DIFFERENCE WEDDINGS Health director general Dr. Sam Zaramba said mental health HARVEST MONEY was of the 12 key areas of the Basic Minimum Health Care Package. SERVICES

TENDERS Zaramba sid lack of evidence-based mental health policy in NOTICES place hindered the Government’s effort to addressing the SUPPLEMENTS KEY DOCUMENTS problem. JOBS NEW

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