More Northerners Have Gone Mental From Drugs, Insurgency

most instances at federal neuro psychiatric centre, maiduguri are drug-associated, even as some patients suffer psychological trauma because of the boko haram insurgency.

the federal neuro psychiatric centre, maiduguri, on tuesday said it recorded sixty seven,000 intellectual fitness instances inside the beyond 18 years.

the clinical director of the centre, dr ibrahim audu, stated in maiduguri that the cases had been recorded for the reason that clinic started out medical operations in 1999.

he said maximum of the cases were drug-related, adding that a few patients suffered mental trauma because of the boko haram insurgency.

audu defined that the centre recorded a 30 in step with cent boom of cases within the past three years due to the improved safety situation, as towards drastic drop in the variety of cases witnessed among 2011 and 2013.

the clinical director attributed the decline to the insurgency which averted sufferers from gaining access to mental fitness offerings.

he stated “the centre is a one hundred fifty-bed potential facility mounted with a mandate to provide mental fitness and studies in mental services within the north-east.

“previous to the insurgency, we get hold of sufferers from adamawa, bauchi, gombe, taraba and yobe states in addition to cameroon, chad and niger republic.”

audu disclosed that the centre furnished offerings within the areas of own family fitness medicine, schooling of mental fitness experts and nurses.

“the concept is to integrate circle of relatives medicinal drug into mental fitness services and enhance shipping of psychiatric offerings to the people,” he defined.