Rotary Club Donates Indoor Games To JUTH’s Psychiatric Dept.

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By Blessing Odega

The Rotary Club, District 9125, Zone 4, Jos, has donated indoor games to the psychiatric Department of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH).

Mr Sani Ibrahim, the Rotary Zone 4 Coordinator for mental health project, said on Friday in Jos, that the donation was the club’s contribution to the promotion of mental health awareness in Nigeria.

Ibrahim said the exercise was aimed at raising awareness on Mental health, and the need to stop the stigma associated with it.

He called on the public to stop the stigmatisation of mental health patients and to help those with such challenges to promptly seek medical assistance.

He said mental health, like the physical health, was a fundamental human right which required more awareness to discourage stigmatisation.

Ibrahim said the indoor games were to help the patients socialise while in the hospital.

Dr Innocent Isama, Chief Registrar of the Psychiatric Department of JUTH, commended the club for its donation, and for creating awareness on mental health.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the indoor games donated were chess, ludos, whot cards, snake and ladder, amongst others. NAN

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