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Punch Newspapers Sections • Insufficient psychiatrists, outdated policy frustrating efforts to reduce mental health cases — Experts For the first seven years of their marriage, Bisoye and Lara Adedoyin – not real names – were subjects of mockery by some family members. The couple’s only ‘offence’ was that they didn’t have a child. “I remember a time my mother-in-law asked me what I was using my womb for since I couldn’t conceive,” Lara told our correspondent. “It was in ...

Lagos, April 9, 2021 Dr Oluwayemi Ogun, Medical Director, Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba, has identified relapse as a major challenge in the management and treatment of psychiatric ailments. Ogun, who made the observation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday, said that relapses occur when addicts purposely seek out drug use. According to her, relapse is bound to occur especially when the psychiatric condition is caused by drug abuse, drug addiction o...