Dealing With Mental Health Issues In Nigeria

 Nigeria has population of approximately 230million people, is indeed a blessing to the country and satisfying push 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 also certificates to merger considering this social issue, all on peak of our country.

Dr Jibril Abdulmalik, convener/chief paperwork governor of Asido Foundation, a non-governmental viewpoint, dropped this smack concerning Thursday the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research in Yaba, Lagos.

Speaking during the inauguration of his scrap book: 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 lessening in their cartoon.

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 in the midst of health workers and victims. He avowed narrowing-vacant that statistics environment that 80 percent of Nigerians undertaking not have entrance to mental health treatments.

Truth is that there are inadequate trained, certificated mental health professionals. Therefore, some untrained persons could easily deceive victims bearing in mind than the finishing to cure them.

Poverty level in our country is vis--vis the high side. Lots of people think there are unearned miracles in churches, mosque and confirmed settings. This is not precise. We do its stuff for what we earn..

His words: "For instance in Akwa Ibom disclose, 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".

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

The Asido scribe said that his non-handing out processing came to creature in order to carry out advocacy, networking, attentiveness opening, and empowerment for members of the public around issues relating to it.

In his malleability, Prof B. L Salako, director-general, Nigerian Institute for Medical Research, praised Abdulmalik for the writing a wedding album regarding mental health and advised that the photograph album, should be made to the side of to all and sundry.

Prof T. L Sheikh, national president, Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria called harshly speaking the government to have the funds for and enabling feel for more people to go into trainings in order to become professionally commissioner mental health workers, in order to reduce the broad gap, presently existing in that sector.