To sustain the efforts of the rejuvenation of Nigeria’s health sector and health security, the Federal government will commence the training of Frontline health workers in the primary health care facilities nationwide next, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Accordingly, to sustain an all-inclusive health sector rejuvenation, the Federal government launched the National Mental Health Policy and the National Suicide Prevention Strategic Framework 2023-2030 in Abuja on Wednesday during the Ministerial Roundtable on Mental Health organized by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare towards mainstreaming mental health into universal health coverage (UHC) as it diligently implementing the National Health Act, 2021.
Records have shown that one in every four Nigerians has some sort of mental challenge while one put 10 gets referred for treatmen
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