Courtesy Matthew LaPlante Wubeshet Abebaw sits outside the Sitota Center for Mental Health Care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Courtesy Matthew LaPlante Wubeshet Abebaw sits outside the Sitota Center for Mental Health Care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Several hospitals have held campaigns to raise awareness of the need for mental health care, particularly among the nation’s large homeless and refugee populations. The expectation of what mental health treatment looks like is very Western.”But the reality, he said, “is really quite different.”“There’s no mediation. And the reality is that not only are they struggling to get mental health care; sometimes they are struggling to eat three times a day.

Source: Ethiopian News January 04, 2018 18:44 UTC