FG, experts decry impact of mental health issues in Nigeria’s development

The Nigerian authorities has highlighted ways intelligence wellness issues impact societal maturation and well-being, noting that mentally incapacitated young radical cannot interaction positively connected society.

The Deputy Director, Dept of Youth Health, Mental and Psychosocial Development, Ministry of Youth Development, Chukwuma Ugwoke noted this successful Abuja, connected Wednesday astatine a Policy Dialogue connected Youth and Teen Mental Wellness.

He said the authorities has nary prime but to wage superior attraction to its young population, arsenic “the youths cannot enactment oregon lend positively to nationalist improvement with mediocre intelligence health.

“A mentally deranged youth, oregon a younker that has intelligence issues cannot behave good successful immoderate society. It would beryllium rare. And immoderate of these issues are much cardinal than we tin see. But we are galvanizing, gathering radical to spot that these issues are handled and mitigated adequately.

“They accidental wellness is wealth. Now the publication of the ministry volition beryllium to guarantee that this policy, this meeting, leads to a argumentation improvement that volition beryllium taken to the National Assembly.

“Some intelligence wellness challenge, arsenic you know, is not erstwhile a idiosyncratic is afloat bare successful a marketplace. No, determination are assorted categories of these intelligence wellness issues.

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