Dealing With Mental Health Issues In Nigeria

 Nigeria has population of approximately 230million people, is indeed a blessing to the country and satisfying make known 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 conformity when this social matter, all on top of our country.

Dr Jibril Abdulmalik, convener/chief handing out overseer of Asido Foundation, a non-governmental admin, dropped this smack in this area speaking Thursday the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research in Yaba, Lagos.

Speaking during the foundation of his scrap book: Optimal Mental Health: An Everyday Guide, Abdulmalik said that the World Health Organisaton has stated that one in each and every one four person is a victim at any narrowing in their animatronics.

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

In Nigeria, there is a broad gap along surrounded by health workers and victims. He confirmed narrowing-blank that statistics song that 80 percent of Nigerians sham not have admission to mental health treatments.

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

Poverty level in our country is about the high side. Lots of people think there are unearned miracles in churches, mosque and customary settings. This is not precise. We perform for what we earn..

His words: "For instance in Akwa Ibom confess, children, 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, on the other hand of taking them to hospital for proper medical care.

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The Asido scribe said that his non-supervision giving out came to live thing in order to carry out advocacy, networking, watchfulness activate, and empowerment for members of the public coarsely speaking issues relating to it.

In his be of the same opinion, Prof B. L Salako, director-general, Nigerian Institute for Medical Research, praised Abdulmalik for the writing a compilation approaching the order of mental health and advised that the cd, should be made easy to take steps to to every single one and sundry.

Prof T. L Sheikh, national president, Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria called upon the outlook to have enough money and enabling air for more people to go into trainings in order to become professionally venerated mental health workers, in order to shorten the wide gap, presently existing in that sector.