‘I’m grateful my son is not wasting away’: Jamaica’s innovative approach to mental healthcare | Global development
“JamaiCAN,” reads a mural at one of the entrance gates to Bellevue, Jamaica’s only psychiatric hospital. The name of the old powder-pink building near Kingston’s upmarket waterfront is recognisable to any Jamaican and is shrouded in stigma. A mural announces the mental health campaign ‘JamaiCan’ at Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Kingston. Photograph: Courtesy of Bellevue psychiatric hospital Built as a colonial lunatic asylum in the 19th century, it had been a tool of political repression, serving as prison for Rastafarian luminaries,…
