Do more to improve mental healthcare in Kenya

Increased cases of depression, suicide and homicide point to a serious mental health problem in Kenya. Millions of Kenyans continue to suffer mental illness in silence, but the worst of it is that many of them are not even aware they have mental health problems.

In December 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta formed a Mental Health task-force under the leadership of Psychiatrist, Dr Frank Njenga. The task-force’s report was handed over to the government in July last year, and some of its findings were, quite frankly, disturbing.