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Why Africa needs to start focusing on the neglected issue of mental health
Mental health has historically been neglected on Africa’s health and development policy agenda. Faced with many challenges, including intractable poverty, infectious diseases, maternal and child mortality, as well as conflict, African political leaders and international development agencies frequently overlook the importance of mental health.
This trend is often compounded by three factors: ignorance about the extent of mental health problems, stigma against those living with mental illness and mistaken beliefs that mental illnesses cannot be treated.
Absence of treatment is the norm rather than the exception across the continent. The “treatment gap” – the proportion of people with mental illness who don’t get treatment – ranges from 75% in South Africa to more than 90% in Ethiopia and Nigeria.
Nigeria
Shortage of mental health professionals in addition to inadequate infrastructures and poor public attitudes towards mental illness has result to about 80 percent of people with serious mental illness unable to access adequate care, with this crisis Besstel Global Foundation are in the process of establishing its charitable services in Nigeria, training and recruiting well incentivized staff through the Besstal Foundation Skill to improving mental health training in care services, evaluate mental health hospital infrastructure, educate and enhance the lives of those suffering from mental health neglect and abuse.
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