Fight depression and aim for top grades in exams — that’s your teen’s homework
But all the money spent on health caters for infections and physical injuries. Yet the education system adds a million emotional patients every year to the population. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG
As Uganda’s government and its development partners invest $1billion every year in the country’s health sector, every January the education sector condemns one million teenagers to a terrible illness—depression.
The sector starts enrolling them into depression a year before by labelling them ‘candidates’ for the national examinations and their anxiety levels shoot up.
