Health experts have proposed a framework that will guide government and the private sector in setting up a functional grief and trauma counseling, agenda.
They presented the framework at a symposium organized by the Aart of Life Foundation in Abuja. The framework is also expected to guide disaster management in the country.
The experts include former chief medical director, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and former permanent secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr. Olufemi Olugbile, Dr. Mathews Zachariah of the Department of Behavioural Medicine, Lagos State University College of Medicine and Teaching Hospital, and Dr. Daramola Olulaja, head of Behavioural Medicine, Karu Specialist Hospital, Abuja among others. In his keynote address at the symposium, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Kenya, Dr. David Musyimi Ndetei stressed the importance of a functional framework in having a comprehensive support for people in grief and trauma.
He proposed an agenda for the continent, where individual, family background, friendship, finances, culture, religion and community are important components considered for effective disaster management.
Chairman of the foundation, Chief Mrs Taiwo Taiwo, reiterated the passion of the organisation to alleviate the effects of grief and trauma among Nigerians.
She said the initiative is more significant with the increasing terror attacks the increasing number of Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) in the country.
By: Ojoma Akor
Daily Trust News
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