Doctor dixon chabanda is a psychiatrist in zimbabwa, Zambia. He knew his country desperately needed access to mental health care. Since health professional were fully tied up with other work he was forced to look elsewhere. In two thousand five he turned to a rather unorthodox group for healp on to day's episode,. How you can vastly improve access to mentalhealth care when you put grandmothers on the case. I'm my a shunker. A show about who we are and what we become in the face of a big change.
Dr. Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Zimbabwe, has been on a mission for years to help people gain access to mental healthcare in his community, where there's only one psychiatrist for every 1.5 million people. To bridge the gap and provide people with the help they need, Dixon turned to a rather unorthodox group for help: grandmothers.
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