Uganda, May 3 -- Experts have expressed concern about the rising number of women with mental health cases since the outbreak of Covid-19.

Mr Edward Ssempira, the executive director of Lifeback Foundation Rehabilitation Centre, said they are overwhelmed by a big turn up of females seeking mental health treatment.

In the same vein, Dr Hafsa Lukwata, the head of the Mental Health Division at the Ministry of Health said: "Before the Covid-19 pandemic, different categories of people were facing challenges of mental health, especially musicians breaking down and keeping it to themselves, luckily, when we started talking about it, people appreciated our initiative."

This was at an engagement with musicians, mental health experts, and the Mini...