Dealing With Mental Health Issues In Nigeria

 Nigeria has population of very about 230million people, is indeed a blessing to the country and cordial serve for local and foreign investors.

But, my beloved country has 80 million people at risk of mental health problems.

Unfortunately, there are less than 200 professionals, trained and empowered in the back certificates to promise when this social business, all on top of our country.

Dr Jibril Abdulmalik, convener/chief handing out official of Asido Foundation, a non-governmental running, dropped this trace concerning Thursday the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research in Yaba, Lagos.

Speaking during the launch of his photo album: Optimal Mental Health: An Everyday Guide, Abdulmalik said that the World Health Organisaton has avowed that one in all four person is a victim at any mitigation in their vibrancy.

According to him, across the world, 10 percent of the population is presently difficulty from one form it.

In Nigeria, there is a broad gap together in the company of health workers and victims. He stated strive for-blank that statistics freshen that 80 percent of Nigerians realize not have entry to mental health treatments.

Truth is that there are inadequate trained, certificated mental health professionals. Therefore, some untrained persons could easily deceive victims taking into account the finishing to cure them.

Poverty level in our country is as regards the high side. Lots of people think there are unearned miracles in churches, mosque and usual settings. This is not exact. We play for what we earn..

His words: "For instance in Akwa Ibom come clean, kids, are labeled witches and witchcrafts and sent to churches or healing centers, where they are chained and flogged, daily in attempt to cure them of witches".

He subsidiary explained that ignorance, shame, stigmatization, has led to people snubbing, or out-rightly abandoning mental health victims, instead of taking them to hospital for proper medical care.

The Asido scribe said that his non-running running came to creature in order to carry out advocacy, networking, awareness opening, and empowerment for members of the public on the subject of issues relating to it.

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In his agreement, Prof B. L Salako, director-general, Nigerian Institute for Medical Research, praised Abdulmalik for the writing a book upon mental health and advised that the wedding album, should be made comprehensible to every one of and sundry.

Prof T. L Sheikh, national president, Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria called upon the processing to have enough share and enabling environment for more people to go into trainings in order to become professionally attributed mental health workers, in order to access the wide gap, presently existing in that sector.