No fewer than 2,500 nursing mothers are benefitting from a free medical care in Enugu State under the auspices of Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders Initiatives (CNDI).
The CNDI chairman, Dr. Muideen Owolabi Bakare, who briefed journalists, on Wednesday, said the programme was taking place in Enugu and Lagos, simultaneously. He said that the programme, taking place two designated centres – St Patrick’s Hospital, Asata, Enugu and Government Health Centre, Abakpa, was being supported by the Department for International Develoment (DFID), run by the British government.
Bakare, a Consultant Psychiatrist, said the programme titled “Tracking Maternal Depression and Child Growth”, was focused on “identifying women with signs and symptoms of post-partum depression, when they bring their children to immunisation clinics at primary healthcare level.”
While calling on nursing mothers suffering from such conditions to visit the two centres in Enugu State, he stressed that “untreated post-partum depression may last for many months or longer.”
He identified the symptoms to include loss of appetite, lack of sleep, intense irritability and anger, overwhelming fatigue, loss of interest in sex, thought of harming yourself or your baby, among others.
By: Enugu, Moses Oyediran
Daily Times News
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