The psychiatry professor observed that the “japa syndrome” had greatly depleted the number of mental health practitioners in the country.
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Mr Obindo, a professor, observed that the “japa syndrome” had greatly depleted the number of mental health practitioners in the country. “One other area needing attention is the budgetary allocation to health, and by extension, mental health, which is less than six per cent.“This falls short of the Abuja Declaration of 2001, where health allocation was to be pegged at a minimum of 15 per cent of every country’s annual budget,” he said.
Mr Udofia also observed that certain presence of culture-specific somatic symptoms, significantly lowered the identification rate of mental illness by general practitioners in teaching hospitals. The commissioner, who was represented by Musiliu Odunaiya, the director of Medical Services and Training, said that the society had surrounded the issue of mental health with myths and stigma.
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