In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Kamenge psychiatric center is the only one in the country that treats people with war trauma, is financed by the church, though patients contribute money for medicines and food.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Soins de Santé Mentale is the only such facility in the Sud-Kivu province, an area covering 69,000 km2 with a population of three million. Family members are expected to help staff with patient care.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Soins de Santé Mentale is the only such facility in the Sud-Kivu province, an area covering 69,000 km2 with a population of three million. Family members are expected to help staff with patient care.

A patient is tied down by a member of her family and a nurse, after she tried to escape from the center. In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Soins de Santé Mentale is the only such facility in the Sud-Kivu province, an area covering 69,000 km2 with a population of three million. Family members are expected to help staff with patient care.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Kamenge psychiatric center is the only one in the country that treats people with war trauma, is financed by the church, though patients contribute money for medicines and food.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Kamenge psychiatric center is the only one in the country that treats people with war trauma, is financed by the church, though patients contribute money for medicines and food.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Soins de Santé Mentale is the only such facility in the Sud-Kivu province, an area covering 69,000 km2 with a population of three million. Family members are expected to help staff with patient care.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Kamenge psychiatric center is the only one in the country that treats people with war trauma, is financed by the church, though patients contribute money for medicines and food.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Kamenge psychiatric center is the only one in the country that treats people with war trauma, is financed by the church, though patients contribute money for medicines and food.

A patient walks in the garden. In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Soins de Santé Mentale is the only such facility in the Sud-Kivu province, an area covering 69,000 km2 with a population of three million. Family members are expected to help staff with patient care.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Soins de Santé Mentale is the only such facility in the Sud-Kivu province, an area covering 69,000 km2 with a population of three million. Family members are expected to help staff with patient care.

In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Soins de Santé Mentale is the only such facility in the Sud-Kivu province, an area covering 69,000 km2 with a population of three million. Family members are expected to help staff with patient care.

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