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Habeb Mental hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. “We are working in the most dangerous place around the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinics in Mogadishu, Somalia. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Somali’s suffer from some kind of mental illness. ...

Habeb Mental hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. “We are working in the most dangerous place around the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinics in Mogadishu, Somalia. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Somali’s suffer from some kind of mental illness. ...

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Robin Hammond Habeb Mental hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. “We are working in the most dangerous place around the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinics in Mogadishu, Somalia. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Somali’s suffer from some kind of mental illness. ... Robin Hammond The Mental Ward at Hargeisa Group Hospital is a terrible place but the building, staff, and patients have received some hope in the form of support from GRT, a small Italian NGO that is trying to rehabilitate infrastructure as well as patients. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Som... Robin Hammond The Mental Ward at Hargeisa Group Hospital is a terrible place but the building, staff, and patients have received some hope in the form of support from GRT, a small Italian NGO that is trying to rehabilitate infrastructure as well as patients. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Som... Robin Hammond The Mental Ward at Hargeisa Group Hospital is a terrible place but the building, staff, and patients have received some hope in the form of support from GRT, a small Italian NGO that is trying to rehabilitate infrastructure as well as patients. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Som... Robin Hammond In Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, there are 7 private clinics ‘treating’ people with mental disability. They house at least 600 patients. I went to see 4 of these institutions. All but one used chains. In 2 of the clinics up to 80% of the patients were shackled. Treatment at these places i... Robin Hammond 33 year old Khadar Mohamed Farah lives in a tin shack in an IDP camp in Hargeisa, Somaliland. He has been in chains for 11 years. 24 hours a day 7 days a week he is locked up. Hargeisa, Somaliland. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Somali’s suffer from some kind of mental illness. ... Robin Hammond 13 year old Ahmed Adan Ahmed spends his days walking in circles, or sitting running his hands through the sand at his feet. For 10 years he has been tied to a stick under the tarpaulin of a tent in and IDP camp in Galkayo. His mother Fawzia sees no other option – if she doesn’t tie him he will ru... Robin Hammond Ahlu-Kheyr Public Mental Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia. Many Somalis will take their mentally ill relative to traditional or Khoranic healers for treatment. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Somali’s suffer from some kind of mental illness. From the camps for Internally Displaced P... Robin Hammond A nurse at Galkayo Mental Health Centre in Puntland comforts a patient. Galkayo Mental Health Centre in Puntland . 44 year old Fatima Farah is a British trained Counseling Psychotherapist at Galkayo Mental Health Centre in Puntland “people still attach a huge stigma to mental health, they don't ... Robin Hammond Ahlu-Kheyr Public Mental Hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 1 in 3 Somali’s suffer from some kind of mental illness. From the camps for Internally Displaced People dotted around the region to the bombed out streets of Mogadishu is a generation of Somalis who’v... Robin Hammond Mogadishu’s Medina Hospital sees as many as 700 war wounded patients a month. Dr Mohamed Yusuf is the hospitals Director “kids they are coming from school, they are talking about what happened to them during the day and it suddenly come on them, a mortar shell. Many of them they don't survive, m... Robin Hammond Former Somali government building in Mogadishu. Somalia’s fragile government has no budget for mental health. The TFG State Minister of Health Dr Mahamud Sheikh Hassan says the country is in crisis. He is very aware of the trauma his people are suffering. He says that while the will to make thing...