psychiatrists-from-uganda

"We were surprised because we had thought maybe people wouldn't want to come, or maybe they wouldn't want to be seen with each other due to stigma,But they actually wanted something like this — so badly."

"It’s no joke. These symptoms can become severe. If someone feels useless and hopeless, they feel they don’t need to take care of their families or their children."

"We teach them how to challenge negative thoughts. We call that unhelpful ways of thinking. We teach them to replace unhelpful ways of thinking with helpful ways of thinking.”"

"They don’t need to take the medication. They have no motivation. That’s what the depression does. They couldn’t take care of themselves and could not go to work.”"

"Given how few trained mental health providers there are in Uganda, one-on-one therapy just wouldn't be practical, "So I had the idea to have a group therapy intervention."

"They say their patients don’t have those issues and don’t want you to screen them because they don't want it to be known that the patients they care for may have an alcohol problem or depression,”"

"The medical field was such that women could only be nurses or something else along these lines, but not doctors."

""We will focus on ensuring the WMA (world medical association ) becomes more relevant to poor countries by addressing issues that national medical associations and the health of people in such countries."Margaret on her vision after being appointed WMA president in 2013"

"In the medical profession, my achievement shows that women can not only be doctors who can make a difference but they can also be leaders in the medical profession, internationally at that."

"Ugandan health workers are heroes who do the work done by five people elsewhere. They take no breaks."