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As Nigeria joins the planetary assemblage to commemorate World Mental Day, the national authorities has called connected healthcare professionals to present intelligence wellness attraction with empathy, compassion and respect, stressing that intelligence wellness is not a privilege for a fewer but a cardinal quality close for each Nigerians.
The coordinating curate of wellness and societal welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, said successful Abuja yesterday Abuja astatine a property briefing successful commemoration of the 2025 World Mental Health Day; “Mental wellness is not a luxury; it is simply a cardinal quality right. Just arsenic radical merit carnal wellness care, housing, education, and safety, they besides merit entree to intelligence wellness services for dignity and well-being. This becomes adjacent much captious during crises.”
Represented by the director, Human Resources Management astatine the ministry, Madam Tetshoma Dafetta, the curate said this year’s taxable highlighted the request to guarantee that prime intelligence wellness services stay available, affordable, and accessible, particularly successful times of crisis.
Pate said the authorities was committed to addressing long-standing barriers that hinder entree to care, including stigma, favoritism and the precocious outgo of treatment.
He noted that Nigeria continues to look important intelligence wellness challenges, with millions experiencing anxiety, depression, and trauma, particularly successful conflict-affected regions and among internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Pate stressed that the national authorities is moving to guarantee fiscal extortion for radical surviving with intelligence wellness conditions, noting that astir Nigerians inactive wage retired of pouch for treatment.
“When radical person aesculapian emergencies, including intelligence wellness care, they often look catastrophic expenses. We are moving toward a strategy wherever intelligence wellness attraction is not a fiscal load but an accessible work wrong cosmopolitan wellness coverage,” helium said.
The curate besides revealed that the authorities was astatine an precocious signifier successful the process of decriminalizing attempted suicide, a betterment helium described arsenic important to redeeming lives and encouraging help-seeking behavior.
“Last year, we inaugurated a National Taskforce connected decriminalisation, and I americium pleased to pass you that we are present astatine a precise precocious stage. Soon, this volition go a reality,” Pate said.
In his connection to wellness professionals, Prof. Pate urged them to show empathy and respect erstwhile caring for patients with intelligence wellness conditions. He emphasised that kindness and knowing play a large relation successful healing and recovery.
Also speaking astatine the event, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Daju Kachallom, said the commemoration provides an accidental to reaffirm the nation’s committedness to intelligence well-being arsenic a cardinal constituent of nationalist development.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Representative successful Nigeria, Dr. Pavel Ursu, commended Nigeria’s enactment successful intelligence wellness reform.
Represented by WHO Technical Officer, Non-communicable Diseases, Dr Mary Dewan, helium noted WHO’s collaboration with the authorities successful rebuilding psychiatric facilities, integrating intelligence wellness into exigency response, and supporting the grooming of wellness workers successful the North-East.
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