NEW YORK ¨C Mass killings, rape, torture, abductions and forced cannibalism have led to an increase in mental illness in South Sudan, with patients routinely housed in prisons due to an ¡°almost total¡± absence of mental health care, a rights group said on Wednesday.
There are only two practicing psychiatrists for South Sudan¡¯s 11 million people, Amnesty International said in a report ahead of the country¡¯s fifth anniversary of independence on July 9.
¡°My mind is not good,¡± the report quoted one man, Phillip, as saying as he described being forced to eat the flesh of dead men rounded up and shot in a security forces building in the capital, Juba, when conflict broke out in December 2013.
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