Ndera Neuropsychiatric Teaching Hospital joins the rest of the world to mark the World Mental Health Day 2025.

Led by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), World Mental Health Day has been celebrated every year on October 10 since 1992. The goal of this day is to help people understand mental health problems and to support better mental health care.

This day is important because it helps fight the stigma around mental illness and supports stronger policies and treatment at both national and international levels.

This year’s theme is:
"Access to services: Mental health problems are treatable, recovery is possible."

In the Rwandan context, this year's theme is translated as:
"Ibibazo byo mu mutwe biravurwa bigakira, dufashe ababifite kwivuza kare kandi neza."

Since its inception in 1968, Ndera Neuropsychiatric Teaching Hospital has been the main mental health services provider in Rwanda. In 2022, it was upgraded to a university teaching hospital, emphasizing its role not only in treating mental health and neurology conditions, but also in training health care service providers in the two fields. Ndera Hospital also contributes to mental health decentralization, through mentorship for District Hospitals across Rwanda.

In the year 2024-2025, Ndera Hospital recorded 119,859 consultations in both psychiatry and neurology departments. The total number of consultations (119,859) includes both new and returning individuals, representing the overall hospital activity. The majority of the cases were epilepsy (36,097), accounting for 29.08% of the total number, and schizophrenia (24,991), which was 20.14% of the total. Acute and transient psychotic disorders came third with 10,349 (8.34%), followed by bipolar disorder in fourth place with 7,235 (5.83%), and depression took fifth place with 4,076 (3.28%).

The total number of hospitalized patients was 4,250.