World Health Organisation (WHO) says it supported the treatment of 301 mental health patients and referred 12 others for further management in Borno from January to November 2020. Dr Henry Nwanja, the WHO Public Health Officer, Emergency Programme, North East, made this known in Maiduguri while handing over the Borno Psychiatric Hospital, rehabilitated by WHO to Borno Government. The the hospital was vandalised by insurgents in 2013. Nwanja said ever since then, the hospital has been non-functional and totally dilapidated until 2019 when the government approached WHO to facilitate the…
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