Health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries have not adequately responded to the substantial burden linked to mental health, resulting in enormous treatment gaps and major shortcomings in the delivery of mental health care. Peru is no stranger to this issue, and has attempted to implement several measures to improve mental health care over the past 50 years. However, these measures have been hampered by a combination of factors, including their small scope or scale, insufficient political support, and poor organisation and allocation of human resources...