Kissy Mental News Today

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr. He was my friend, a true Fourahbite (someone who attended Forah Bay College), a Librite, a socialite and an excellent student of the History and Politics Department of the college. He was also an agile student politician on Campus and speaks eloquently and was always at the forefront challenging issues that had to do with the welfare of students on

UPKEEP TRANSFORMED KISSY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Commonly called the Kissy Mental home, the psychiatric hospital in the hilly settlement east of Freetown was established to treat persons with mental health problems. Being a health condition that our society frowns at or hardly discusses, relapsing sufferers and those completely overwhelmed by the illness, face stigmatization. For

GENTO CAMPAIGNS IN A MOSQUE AND ATTRACTS FIRE Things move really fast in these days of social media. As soon as something drops in one group it spreads. Sometimes it goes round and round and returns to the person who released the original information as so-called BREAKING NEWS. So here we are now with the issue of Gento campaigning in a mosque and urging the faithful to vote

In May, clinicians at the PIH-supported Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital opened the facility’s, and the country’s, first child and adolescent mental health unit and are already improving families' lives.