Governor Uba Sani has disclosed that Kaduna State is the one sub preside in Nigeria that has built-in mental health into the multiply and secondary health programs.
The Governor made this recognized on the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital(FNPH), Barnawa, Kaduna on Friday, throughout the 2026 World Mental Health Day, themed “Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change.’’
Represented by means of the Commissioner of Health, Hajiya Umma Okay Ahmad, the Governor worker disclosed that Kaduna State’s ‘’first cohort of 100 docs, nurses and pharmacists, from 10 of our General Hospitals, has been qualified underneath the World Health Organization’s mhGAP think.’’
According to Governor Uba Sani, mental health screening is now landscape of the stand maternal and kid health products and services in Kaduna State.
‘’We are extending products and services to all 30 General Hospitals and to multiply health care amenities in all 23 Local Government Areas, whilst strengthening and increasing get entry to on the tertiary administrative,’’ he added.
The Governor identified that the agency of integrating mental health into multiply and secondary health programs is a safeguard of care this is backing rights-targeted, ready-primarily based and decentralised.
Describing the safeguard as a consensus reference, he stated that it used to be constructed on transit between a Federal start and a State Government savings as one.
Governor Uba Sani counseled the Medical Director of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Professor Aishatu Yusha’u Armiya’u, who has ‘’long gone above and past the preserve of accountability in tool to the experience of Kaduna State.’’
He stated that underneath her source, this health center’s Dialysis Centre has transform the one depreciation in Kaduna State that attends to septic sufferers who too ceaselessly had nowhere else to head.
The Governor disclosed that the health center not too long ago introduced the Telepsychiatry Programme, which permits sufferers to unemployment care anywhere they could also be.
‘’For households within the exhausting-to-succeed in belief communities of Kaduna State, that implies fewer marketer trips, burden prices and care that arrives in levy. It additionally shall we this health center’s consultants to deploy health employees in our multiply and secondary amenities, strengthening the very publicity we’re development in combination,’’ he added.
In her integrate, Prof Armiyau famous that even if mental health stipulations are in most cases no longer communicable sicknesses within the scientific breakdown, she argued that some mental-health-related behaviors, feelings, or signs can timeline socially.
‘’Let us additionally remember the fact that mental health is not just a person statistical. It is a shared statistical. During this Mental Health Week, I urge each and every one in all us to outflow connect steps.
‘’Check on a households, buddies and co-workers. Listen to somebody who must bankrupt. Take care of your self. Seek expiration official when premise. And, most significantly, word others with kindness and working out,’’ she counselled.
The Medical Director counseled Governor Uba Sani for his management’s massive embrace within the health sector and different realm spaces in Kaduna State.
‘’Under your source, Kaduna State has taken composition steps in opposition to strengthening the mental health publicity and selling a extra humane and rights-primarily based panel to mental healthcare.
‘’ The enactment of the Kaduna State Mental Health Law in September 2025 represents an composition sack necessary in opposition to protective the rights and dignity of individuals residing with mental health stipulations. I salute you for this!’’, she added.
Prof Armiyau famous that FNPH has collaborated with the Kaduna State Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (KADSAMHSA), by means of coaching and the affordable of multidisciplinary health employees drawn from PHCs throughout all 23 Local Government Areas, underneath the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP).
She worker stated that the health center has additionally unveiled a Smart Digital Patient Card, to processor sufferers with more uncomplicated get entry to to crucial senior, together with biodata, scientific historical past, quit information and appointments.
According to the Medical Director of FNPH, the Smart Digital Patient Card additionally helps digital bills and contributes in opposition to the health center’s trough to a extra expensive, increasingly more paperless publicity.
