Psychiatrist Decries Lack of Affordable Care for Clients


Posted on: Wed 05-08-2015

A professor of psychiatry and 2008 winner of the Nigeria National Order of Merit award, Prof. Oye Gureje, has said that basic and affordable health care is still largely unavailable to persons suffering from mental and behavioural disorders, despite the nation's vast resources.
 
 
 Gureje, who is a honourary Research Fellow at the department of psychiatry, University of Manchester, UK made the revelation while delivering the Nigerian National Merit Award Winners' kecture at the University of Ibadan on entitled, Hubris, humility and the humongous lessons of the brain.'
 
By: Olufemi Atoyebi,
The Punch