A name has gone to the federal authorities of Nigeria to expedite motion on the current statistics by psychological well being consultants the place about 50 million Nigerians are mentioned to be mentally sick.
The response was in opposition to the backdrop of current revelation by a psychological well being skilled who raised the alarm by way of a publication.
Whereas talking with Blueprint in an unique chat in Abuja on Tuesday, a Physiotherapist, Dr Itopa Yahya Garba, allayed fears, saying: “Whereas not dismissing the claims as expressed by consultants, I’ll nonetheless add right here that not all psychological dysfunction is that extreme.”
Itopa gave the trace at a symposium held for the employees of the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja in commemoration of the World Psychological Well being Day.
In line with him, there’s loads of plausibility in these statistics, saying some psychological issues are delicate and will by no means require scientific consideration.
Though Itopa who was a visitor speaker on the occasion added: “By the point you combination all of this, you discover out that sure certainly lots of people on the market would possibly really be having psychological well being dysfunction.”
Itopa recognized socio-economic circumstances, stress, insecurity and different happenings within the society as able to precipitating or perpetuates psychological sickness in people.
On the best way out, Itopa charged the federal authorities to move into regulation the psychological well being Act, saying it captures all of the challenges, satisfactory funding like they did HIV and the Covid-19 scourge.
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