Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Abdulaziz Mashi Abdullahi, stated this at the on-going mental health action committee and stakeholders workshop in Abuja. Mental health Abdullahi, who attributed the country’s high burden of mental disorders to inadequate attention paid to mental illnesses, misconceptions and lack of awareness on the part of the Nigerian public, said more people will be disabled by psychological challenges than complications arising from HIV/AIDS, heart disease, accidents, and wars combined by the year 2020.

He identified ways of addressing the country’s mental health burden to include: fast-tracking the enactment of the Mental Health Act as well as the resuscitation of the national mental health action committee for the coordination of stakeholders’ activities on mental health and psychosocial supports in the country. He said: “In Nigeria, an estimated 20%–30% of our populations are believed to suffer from mental disorders. This is a very significant number considering Nigeria has an estimated population of over 200 million.

“Unfortunately, the attention given to mental health disorders in Nigeria is inadequate. The level of awareness of the Nigerian public on mental health issues is also understandably poor, and with lots of misconceptions. “By 2020, it is estimated that common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse-related disorders, will disable more people than complications arising from HIV/AIDS, heart disease, accidents, and wars combined! This is an astonishing statistic and possesses serious questions as to why mental health disorders are not given the needed attention that it currently receives.

“A policy for mental health services delivery was developed with several key provisions of the policy, including establishing a body at the Federal Ministry of Health to focus on Mental Health issues. “Some of the pertinent issues is how to address and dialogue with stakeholders on the burden of mental health, intimate them on the Mental Health policy, identify ways to fast track the enactment of the Mental Health Act and modalities for resuscitating the National mental health action committee for coordinating the activities of various stakeholders on mental health and Psychosocial supports in Nigeria.”

Also speaking, the Director of Public Health in the ministry, Dr. Evelyn Ngige, described the Ngeria’s statistics on mental health disorders as damning considering the current economic hardships in the country. Her words: “Considering the current economic situation in the country, the above statistics are damning and in the light of the recent suicidal episodes recorded in parts of Lagos (which are obviously a tip of the iceberg), it forces a rethink in our general attitudes to mental health and questions our current maintenance of the status quo.”

In his remarks, Dr. Rex Mpaazange, the WHO Lead on Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases Intervention, also lamented Nigeria’s high burden of mental health disorders; noting that “People with severe mental disorders – moderate to severe depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders – generally have a life-expectancy 10-20 years shorter than the general population.”

SOURCE: https://flowbaze.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=140&sid=ec52ec60dfd4dd63676deaecd83c1561

PDP and Atikulooting is 90% of these people because no sane person will support Atiku and PDP to rule this country again

FFK comes to mind

39 million out of those 40 million people are pdp supporters and the jobless aggressive idiotic Oloriburuku pigs of Biafra

How will they not? Even that number is very very low. The right figure is 80m that lives in abject poverty.

How will they not suffer when the thought about the next meal, school fee, occupies over 18 of the 24hours of the day. Nigerians are driven mad by the burden of the present, the regrets of their action in 2015 and the fear of repeating the same mistake in 2019.

Baawaa:
PDP and Atikulooting is 90% of these people because no sane person will support Atiku and PDP to rule this country again

You are on to something there.

yes, even here on NL,

Now, that's an understatement.

That is caused by the presence of Buhari in Aso Rock.

And 99% of them are BMCs and zombies.

Aaronzy:
FFK comes to mind

Too right.

Whether it is in his assertion about the contribution of witches and wizards to avoidable air disasters in Nigeria; his incendiary commentary which apportioned blame to Reeva Steenkamp (girlfriend of Oscar Pretorius') for her untimely death; his bizarre and equally warped intervention in response to the macabre killing of Lee Rigby (by a couple of Nigerian-Brits), FFK has form for shooting his mouth off on subjects he is ill-equipped to understand.

That he can called on a fanbase of young Nigerians to help spread his bile, is testament to just how morally bankrupt our nation has become.

Baawaa:
PDP and Atikulooting is 90% of these people because no sane person will support Atiku and PDP to rule this country again

Your opinion. No amount of hate speeches against atiku will keep buhari in office next year. The level of looting in this administration is appealing. We didn't know then former dss boss Mr daura who hails from same town with buhari stole so much until after his sack. The ganduje dollar bribe that has gone viral is the most shameful video of the century. Don't tell me you're not aware of all this, buhari supporter.

40 Million Nigerians are not feeding well.


Because how come no Politician and rich persons are among the 40 million.

Instead of increasing salary, government should reduce the cost of Ijebu garri.

And how come all this cows in Nigeria and Olympic milk is N30 for 1?

Can all the ancestors in Nigeria gather together and form one powerful THUNDER........

Flattino:
39 million out of those 40 million people are pdp supporters and the jobless aggressive idiotic Oloriburuku pigs of Biafra

You meant to say APC supporters who are blindly following the man of UNintegtiy? Emu kii se biafra. Omo yoruba atata nimi.Wait a minute...who said he'd stop political office holders from seeking medical treatments abroad, should he win the presidential election but after he won, became the number one benefiriary of foreign medical trestment ? Who said he would stop fuel subsidy but later became the one encouraging it? Who said he would do one term but later said he would run again? Who said rather than increase pump price, he would reduce it and revive refineries but later rand down the refineries and increased petrol to 145 naira? How do you rate a man of integrity , if not trough the words coming out of his mouth? I think there's a problem here in nigeria especially among the youths. Where's their brains? Only in nigeria will such a thing as this happen....following a liar blindly .

owhe owhe plus lai abi lie Mohammed

awelekiti:
You meant to say APC supporters who are blindly following the man of UNintegtiy? Emu kii se biafra. Omo yoruba atata nimi.Wait a minute...who said he'd stop political office holders from seeking medical treatments abroad, should he win the presidential election but after he won, became the number one benefiriary of foreign medical trestment ? Who said he would stop fuel subsidy but later became the one encouraging it? Who said he would do one term but later said he would run again? Who said rather than increase pump price, he would reduce it and revive refineries but later rand down the refineries and increased petrol to 145 naira? How do you rate a man of integrity , if not trough the words coming out of his mouth? I think there's a problem here in nigeria especially among the youths. Where's their brains? Only in nigeria will such a thing as this happen....following a liar blindly .

Why are you hitting your head on the floor ?
Oya take 5 naira go buy food
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Flattino:
39 million out of those 40 million people are pdp supporters and the jobless aggressive idiotic Oloriburuku pigs of Biafra

Ah!