Doctors from the UK & Psychiatric Hargeisa University Students Visit Sahan Mentally ill Center

[Deeq A.]

Psychiatric doctors from the UK accompanied by students from Hargeisa University paid a courtesy visit to Sahan Community Mental Health Center. The center which came into being in 2008 provides medical treatments to 600 mentally ill patients. Dr. Ellen from King’s College said during the visit that the center is of tremendous importance to Somaliland. She has expressed thanks for the staffers who made the center to be fully functioning. She pledged to have close working cooperation with the center. The psychiatric faculty students at Hargeisa University conducted medical treatments offered to patients at the center and launched a research project. Students were surprised to learn the mental center to exist in Somaliland as they said that this is the first of its kind which rehabilitates people who are mentally challenged. The Safa General Trading donated ghee to the center as a gesture of good will.