Do more to defuse the ticking mental health time bomb

Mathari Teaching and Referral Hospital. [David Gichuru, Standard]

On Thursday, December 5, 2016, tens of patients sneaked out of Kenya's largest mental health facility, Mathari Teaching and Referral Hospital.

It was not the first time. Hours later, a number of patients returned. One of them told the media that he sneaked out after another patient told him that nurses were on strike.