Psychiatrist decries lack of affordable care for clients

A professor of psychiatry and 2008 winner of the Nigerian 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’ lecture at the University of Ibadan on Monday. The lecture was entitled, ‘Hubris, humility and the humongous lessons of the brain.’