Malawian based mental health experts at Saint John of God in Mzuzu have urged government and some stakeholders consider having a mental hospital at each district citing scores of people are getting mad day in day out due to diverse causes in the country.
This comes in agreement with Malawi24 investigation which indicates that since independence only three (Mzuzu, Zomba and Lilongwe) mental hospitals have been operational in the whole country.
Furthermore, according to records this publication accessed at Saint John of God mental hospital in Mzuzu, only less than 20 mental health experts are holding up the whole country.
Psychologist at the hospital, Mdumanene Silungwe confessed that inadequate facilities offering mental health services in the country is a very serious stumbling block to their profession.
Silungwe maintained that will the rapid growing number of people who are getting mental illnesses the three available hospitals deserve to be referrals so that they ease their work.
“There should be district mental hospitals and the available ones must be referrals because the current state of affairs suggests that many people will be getting mad. So only these will not withstand the pressure,” said Silungwe.
He went on to elucidate that these days many people are getting mad because of smoking cannabis and some personal anxieties apart from stress due to the realities they face in the society.
Therefore he also urged government and all concerned parties to prioritize training more mental health experts to suit the current status call.
“It’s indeed accurate that the whole Malawi we are only less than 20 or even 10 if not mistaken. This makes our work challenging because we meet a lot of people this time,” added Silungwe.
Efforts to get comment from the ministry of health publicist Adrian Chikumbe on the concern proved futile because before publishing this article, he claimed to be in attendance to be in a meeting.
the high cost of living and the partial ligalisation of industrial crop
Yeah! hvy Nyc 1
bad
Mwinadi azilemba anthu Ali kunyumbawa.
aganiza bwino abomawo malingana ndi chamba achivomeredza chija ambiri apenga ndithu
Kodi misala ili ndi makhwala pa dziko pano???
Do you mean that more people in malawi are now mad ?
Or is just a part of your development ?
mukudziwa ur just toking coz simuli okhuzidwa mbanja mwanu panopo matendawa akuchulukira
I quit
Ndiye mukayamba kulima chamba kuzizatu kumeneko mupenga ambili ndithu
With current situation economic turmoil pple r stressed hence mentally ill. We are afraid with pressure mounting on our leader, may be he can be the next victim.
y havn such childsh thoughts instd ov buyn drugs in hosptals so dat normal pple cn get cured?? its lyk kumupasa mwana wazaka3 kut azyendera humber yet sangakwanise kukwera,wat imin iz amisala sazatha&misalayo ikhalapo tll mapeto azko thr4 lets nt wast our money 4 de amisala coz akachra amafna de orignal hosptals!! malawi sazatheka,kumpanje2!!jst regalis chambacho ife ma gheto tizbanda mwa3(am jst agheto grace(representr) sndbanda)
iweyo suzachila misala yako yakhwima bas
There r dfrent etiologies of madness siwose amene ali amisara amkasuta chamba
@Sasco iiii misala yanga nd yageri brada pano iri Botswana ikumenya craft ryt here kk
true @Mphatso ,Hailley Selassie nevr got mad bt ankabanda per 1hour,waxixiwa.misala starts wen mawire amuhed akadukaduka
Ndipo palibe misala imabwera kamba kaganjaaa.Nanga bwanji amisala achick angoti mbwe mbwe mbwee wa amasuta ganja? ganja ali bhooooo
hooo!!
Even alcohol can cause misala the thing is muthetse masacheti a mowa wotchipa.
do uthnk wat u av sed cn b achievd?whr gheto youths wl fnd ma highnes??
Man Gazzo,there are so many ways for the gheto youths to find highness like joining youth clubs.
Dont blame ganja,,,those who goes mad day in day is not bcoz of ganja,,let the Land to be inproved through ganja..i like ganja so much
zachamba zomati anthu akupenga chifukwa cha ganja…ife tizadya zomerazo mpaka yesu kubwera…paja bob marley ananyamulakonso ganja mu bokosi lake kupangira zaulendo siziziwika, akabandira kumwamba konkooo
Ati scores of people are getting mad day by day….they must be a polite way of saying this am Shure
LOL
Day by day, then the situation is bad, tizapeza anthu ose achita misala, mwina nafe kuzalamliko dziko
Komenti yako ikuonetselatu kut wayamba misala
People are going astray because of indian hemp.Malawi’s indian hemp is very strong for the people to smoke.
aaa enawa amasutila dala chamba alangike kaye sizochulusa namba ya2 amisala apa
Ask God to heal mental cases instead of promoting the situation. Then why do you have the word #GOD in your hospital??
Hope ku xul unapitako…bwanji sumkangokhala pakhomo ndikumupempha mulunguyo angokupatsa pa certificate ndi ma degree ose
Saint John is probably right or wrong but that is not going to take away the fact that legalising Marijuana will improve this nation’s economy. According to Time magazine (last month) U.S made more than 50 million dollars from marijuana in less than two months. Malawi needs a miracle and there cant be any other than marijuana. God cant save this land!
Legalizng ganja mnz mooo mental hozptalz aah can dey jax regaliz t plz
Zilibwno Zkatelo
Hahahaha Nyasaland ase