One in eight scuffling with problems, survey reveals
A groundbreaking survey by the Mental Health Service The Gambia reveals that one in each eight Gambians, roughly 324,000 folks, are battling psychological well being points.
The findings expose the extent of the psychological well being disaster within the nation, the place elements comparable to financial hardships and restricted healthcare entry are contributing to widespread psychological problems.
Among these affected, 81,000 people are grappling with extreme psychological well being situations, whereas almost 918,000 persons are scuffling with melancholy and nervousness, highlighting the pressing want for intervention and help.
In response to Africa’s rising psychological well being challenges, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched the Mental Health Leadership Programme (MHLP) at a high-level occasion attended by well being ministers from Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, and senior representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The MHLP, launched in the course of the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, goals to equip well being leaders throughout Africa with the instruments to handle psychological well being by means of a public well being and human rights lens.
The initiative is supported by the Wellcome Trust, which has funded quite a few African psychological well being analysis initiatives specializing in situations like nervousness, melancholy, and psychosis.
Despite these efforts, Africa’s psychological well being companies stay critically underfunded. With simply 1.4 psychological well being employees per 100,000 folks and solely 14 outpatient psychological well being visits per 100,000 folks yearly, the continent faces important challenges in offering look after its 120 million folks residing with psychological well being problems.
Dr. Jean Kaseya, director basic of the Africa CDC, confused that “mental health policies in Africa are mostly outdated and poorly implemented,” underscoring the need for complete, fashionable approaches to fight the rising disaster.
By Adama Makasuba
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