Soaring drug prices, poverty, and a shrinking workforce are worsening Nigeria’s mental health disorders, raising the population of people with psychiatric cases across the country.
Nigeria has only 250 psychiatrists despite the fact that one-quarter of the nation’s 200 million people are experiencing mental illnesses, according to the World Bank.
Similarly, drug prices have jumped by more than 100 percent within two years, forcing poor mental case patients to avoid treatment.
Taiwo Obindo, president of the Association of Psychiatrists
