As a mental health practitioner, I get asked various questions about mental health in Nigeria. I'll be doing a series on these frequently asked questions.
1. Q: Where can I or my relative seek mental health care from?
A: There are various government and private centres for mental health care.
There are mono centres which attend to just mental health.
These are
Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Calabar.
Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin.
Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Barnawa, Kaduna.
Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu.
Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta.
There are also psychiatric/ mental and behavioural disorder units in each teaching hospital. Some federal medical and state/general hospitals have a psychiatrist. So you can also seek care from these places.
There are various private mental health clinics scattered all over the various states with new ones coming up daily so I might not be able to list all.
There is a program by the WHO called the MHgap- Mental Health gap which includes Mental Health care into the Primary Health Care system. A pilot has been done in Osun state with a good outcome. Hopefully this will be implemented soon. This will mean Mental Health will be more readily available.
If you have any questions concerning Mental Health, please mail me at mentalhealthadvocacyng@gmail.com
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