Insurgency Has Contributed To Increase Mental Illness In North-East-WHO Official

The Emergency Manager, World Health Organisation, WHO, Dr. Owili Collins, has attributed the growing cases of mental disorder among Nigerians especially   in North east of the country to insurgency.

About 50 million Nigerians are reported to be suffering from mental disorder.

He said WHO was working with the state and federal governments to improve mental health through various interventions.

Represented by Mr Isaac Bwatin, a WHO Mental Health Officer, Collings said the organisation had trained 154 primary healthcare workers, staff on common signs of mental illness in order to provide humanitarian services to the persons displaced by Boko Haram.

He said that WHO had received grant from the European Union to upgrade and rehabilitate the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital in Maiduguri to enhance quality of services to the people.

“WHO is working on a long term plan with the Borno state and Federal Government to transform mental healthcare in the country through the implementation of the plan and interventions within the framework.

He lamented that the horror lost, uncertainty and experience related to displacement and loss of livelihood had made people to be affected by mental health.

He listed some of the mental health problems to include depression, psychosis and pros-traumatic disorder.

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