No universal health coverage without mental health investment, UNIJOS don warns

From Jude Dangwam, Jos

Nigeria cannot achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) without deliberate and sustained investment in mental healthcare, a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Jos, Taiwo James Olubunmi Obindo, has warned.

Obindo gave the warning while delivering the 126th inaugural lecture of the University of Jos, where he raised the alarm over Nigeria’s growing mental health…