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Muna Mohamed Ahmed, 18 years old talks incessantly after her recent arrival patient at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Hospital. She has been diagnosed with mania. A week before being admitted she started suffering from insomnia, continuous and incompre An in-patient standing by his bed at one of the rehabilitation centres run by the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinics. 'Dr' Abdi Rahmann Ali Alwa Habeeb treating an in-patient at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia. Male in-patients at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia. Abdi Rizak Mohamud is an in-patient at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Hospital. He is suffering from psychosis brought on through the use of the locally available mild-stimulant khat. Khat is widely used in Somalia and in fact most of the Horn of Afric In-patients at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia lying and sitting on their beds. The clinic is over-full and patients have to make use of space outside the large rooms that are used as wards. Male in-patients at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia. He was found near the current frontline of fighting between Al-Shabaab and the AMISOM forces at Daynille. He had ot eaten for a few weeks and was diagnised with suffering A lady cleaning the floor where in-patients sleep at one of the rehabilitation centres run by the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinics in Mogadishu, Somalia. Male in-patients at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia. A female in-patient at one of the rehabilitation centres in Mogadishu, Somalia run by the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinics. Male in-patients at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia. 'Dr' Abdi Rahmann Ali Alwa Habeeb treating an in-patient at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia. A psychiatric nurse attending to patients at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia.