Traditional healers fill Nigeria mental healthcare gap
An estimated 20 million Nigerians suffer from mental illness. But many go without professional help.
There are only 130 psychiatrists in Nigeria, which has a population of 174 million. The World Health Organisation estimates that only about three percent of the health budget goes to mental health.
Psychiatric treatments are expensive, so many patients have no choice but to turn to traditional healers.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege reports from Abuja.
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Send them to the US, the cops will use them as target practice.
How about America's crippled mental health care? Now lunatics are routinely turned out onto the streets with some pills to fend for themselves and inevitably run into trouble with the police. They end up either in prison or in the morgue.
And the sad thing is that this isn't due to lack the lack of funds as in a developing country such as Nigeria, it's the legacy of Ronald Reagan who gutted public provision of mental health care, along with other social programs, to cut taxes for the rich.
Soon Jewish noeocons will destroy Qatar. Qatar may not survive in the next 2 years.
The title should be, scam artist exploit misery in Nigeria, again.
Govt build world-class hospitals: Hospital buildings.. as Haikou City Peoples Hospital.. Peking Union Medical College.. PKU 3rd Peoples Hospital.. PKU 6th Hospital (Mental Car).. PKU Oral Car Hospital.. Puhua International Hospital – Shuangjing.. Air ambulance services.. Beijing Red Cross Chaoyang Hospital.. Water ambulance.. Xinhui Peoples Hospital.. Ambulance.. Clifford Hospital.. Peoples Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.. Grantham Hospital Hong Kong.. Dentistry
Introduce clinical officer program which is a crush course in medicine, with quick specialty in Psychiatry within 3yrs… Zambia and Malawi have done that