Zambia is drinking itself into a coma
By Charles Mafa
It
is estimated that one in every five people in Zambia is living with some form
of mental illness.
This
astonishing figure was first revealed back in 2005 when the World Health
Organisation (WHO) estimated the prevalence of mental disorders to be at 20% of the population.
They went
further and said that 6% to 10% of Zambians have severe mental disorders that
need hospital care.
There has
been no statistical analysis of the prevalenc...
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