Today I was in a workshop which started yesterday organized by Vision Group in Uganda; the theme of the workshop was Health Journalism. Every thing seemed to go well with every facilitator since the opening, until today afternoon when Dr. Byaruhanga from the Psychiatry department at Mbarara Referral Hospital came in to take us through mental health.
He explained the different types of mental illness, challenges, problems, and how to go about it as journalists while reporting on it. His presentation was amazing but really very important to the participants.
In the middle of his presentation, he noted that one person out of five is mentally ill and went on to talk about how it also retards the sexual will of an individual plus many more.
I realized that, this was one of the important themes I missed studying at length while at University even at the recently concluded 2008 Summer Academy in Hamburg.
May be our Universities can include this in their mainstream course units, may be the Summer Academy organizers can also bring it in as one of the course units for the lucky ones who will make it to Hamburg next year 2009.
Just food for thought
Lauben
2 responses so far ↓
1 Britta // Sep 30, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Good suggestion, dear Lauben. We will take it into consideration when we start to design the programme of the Summer Academy 2009! Keep us posted - and all the best,
Britta
2 Lauben Matsiko // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:45 am
Britta,
THank you for the encouraging response.
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