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Ghana: Dealing with the Mentally Ill

19 Jan 2015

In many places in Africa, people with mental illnesses are excluded from society. Tens of thousands of people suffering from dementia, schizophrenia or depression are ostracized by their families. They're shut away and kept in chains under appalling conditions in camps that call themselves prayer centers.
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Place Discussed
Ghana
Published in
Ghana
Rights URI
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Source
Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2051904/data_euscreenXL_1520715

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