Two MGH psychiatry residents travel to Ethiopia and find a huge need for mental health help:
Only a handful of overwhelmed doctors staff this 360-bed hospital — not surprising given that the entire country of 75 million people has just 17 psychiatrists and 190 psychiatric nurses.Earlier this year, two psychiatric residents from Massachusetts General Hospital traveled to the Addis Ababa hospital as the first participants in a program set up by the hospitals to ease the burden on Ethiopia’s doctors and to help teach the country’s newest psychiatry residents — all three of them.
