Giving priority to the mentally ill
One of four patients visiting a health service has at least one mental, neurological or behavioral disorder but most of these disorders are neither diagnosed nor treated. Fifteen years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, many people in Rwanda still live with trauma, loneliness and extreme depression that cause mental illness and madness.
![Mentally ill people are isolated and abandoned by many societies in Rwanda. Mentally ill people are isolated and abandoned by many societies in Rwanda.](https://www.newtimes.co.rw/uploads/imported_images/files/main/articles/2009/10/14/MentallyillpeopleareisolatedandabandonedbymanysocietiesinRwanda.jpg)
Mentally ill people are isolated and abandoned by many societies in Rwanda.