St Camille Association or Association Saint-Camille de Lellis was founded in 1994 by Grégoire Ahongbonon to provide residential care for people in West Africa with mental illness.
Ahongbonon was born in Benin and immigrated to Ivory Coast, and was formerly a mechanic.
Patients are then given an official diagnosis and prescribed medication at an affordable price.
[4] One concern with the organisation is that as there is not enough staff to routinely monitor patients long-term, some may be over-medicated.
Additionally, most of the care is provided by nurses, often without adequate supervision from psychiatric specialists due to staff shortages.