Rwanda's mental hospital raises alarm over rise in cases of alcohol abuse
A man carries a Rwandan local brew in a gourd. The number of people engaging in substance abuse is steadily on the rise, and many of the consumers of substances sold cheaply in the communities. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA
Rwanda has registered an increase in the number of people engaging in substance abuse with the country’s major referral neuropsychiatric hospital, Ndera, seeing more alcohol abuse related mental cases especially in people within the 18 to 35 year age bracket.
While most are regular abusers of alcoholic beverages — wines and spirits — increasingly there are cases of users of heavy drugs like cannabis sativa and heroin.
