Group, Enugu First Lady’s health initiative collaborate to establish psychiatric clinics in Enugu prisons
Prison
By Maureen Ojinaka
Enugu, May 25, 2018 (NAN) The Initiative for the Support, Care and Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill Destitutes (INSCREMID), is to collaborate with Health Life Initiative of Mrs Monica Ugwuanyi, to establish psychiatric clinics in Enugu Prisons.
A retired Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr George Eze, who is the Chairman of INCREMID, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Friday.
Eze, also a former Enugu State Commissioner for Health, said that INCREMID had started discussing with Health Life Initiative on the collaboration to set up psychiatric clinics in Enugu Prisons.
He said that the purpose of establishing the clinics in prisons was to cater for the numerous mentally ill inmates.
The Consultant, is presently helping the government of Sierra Leone to set up the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, in their newly established University Teaching Hospital.
He also revealed that he had also expanded his frontiers by providing recreational materials like Television sets, indoor games, among others for the destitute in-patients at the only psychiatric centre at Kissy, Freetown.
“I call on well meaning citizens of the world to financially and materially support INCREMID to restore the human dignity of this forgotten branch of humanity,” he said.
NAN recalls that Eze, the founder of INSCREMID, in 2017 donated materials worth N500,000 to patients of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH), Neuropsychiatric Clinic, Emene near Enugu.
The NGO also conducted free medical check-up for all the inmates in Enugu Prisons. (NAN)
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