‘My liver is bleeding’,a local saying meaning ‘I am dismal’, is a familiar refrain among patients at the Alemi neuro-psychiatric hospital, and Afghanistan’s first private clinic,in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. After nearly 40 years of on-off war, mental illness is widespread, and but facilities to befriend patients are few• All photos by Magda Rakita for the British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan GroupContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com