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Facebook Twitter Pinterest About 25% of disabled people in Sierra Leone are amputees who were wounded in the civil war. The mental health toll that Ebola exacted ? depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder ? was massive. For those working in the mental health sector, this is not the way things were supposed to be. In Freetown, Sevalie hopes the enthusiasm around mental health services will continue. Photograph: Tanya Bindra/AP?Many of these programmes were excellent,? says Dr Florence Baingana, who works for the World Health Organisation?s Sierra Leone office.