The coordinating minister of Health, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, stated this on Tuesday at a press briefing to mark the 2023 World Mental Health Day, with the theme: “Mental Health is a Universal Human Right’, in Abuja.
“The fact that we are celebrating this day signals that we still have a lot of work to do to bring that aspect of our understanding into what really health is. We have a hidden epidemic of mental diseases, globally 15 per cent of the burden of diseases in our country is a significant cause of morbidity and some mortality due to mental ill-health.
The minister, therefore, said that the access, affordability and quality of mental healthcare will be an important direction to be taken in the context of the country’s strategic blueprint for health.“The law that has been passed, we will develop the guidelines to operationalise it. We need resources and I think the federal government will pull from the resources available and we call on states to prioritise health, put the resources in, as non-state actors are also stepping in.
The minister of state for Health, Dr Tunji Alausa, revealed that the ministry was working on incorporating mental care into Primary Healthcare Centres .
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