Mr Mutati says mental illness affects everyone in society and that there is need to fight stigmitisation in a similar manner like HIV and AIDS.
The minister explains that mental illness should be treated like any other common medical condition because it is not a self inflicted disease.
Mr Mutati said this in a speech read on his behalf by Development Bank of Zambia -DBZ Managing Director Jacob Lushinga during a donation of matresses worth Twenty Five thousand kwacha to Chainama Hills Hospital.
And Chainama Hills Hospital Acting Medical Superintendent Nita Besa said alcohol abuse remains the highest cause of mental illness among adolescents and youths in Zambia.
Dr Besa said 80 percent of the patients admitted to the institution have abused alcohol and that the majority are male patients.
She has since appealed to government to expedite the modernisation of the institution which has not received any face lift since its inception in 1962.
Same like you did with PF?
Mutati now believe that PF is full of mentally ill people.
The Fact is this is just cheap talk there is little focus in this area when did they last even build a mental health clinic in Zambia? There is minimal funding in the sector… hence the donations … and very little in the way of motivating psychologists and psycho therapists to go into the sector to help. So save us these speeches we are so accustomed to in Zambia.
Why in Livingstone? Please stop telling us that about our tonga friends.
Don’t imagine situations beyond subjects at hand.
Your idiosyncrasy will drive you nuts pal!!
@HH Techilema! You are uncivilized. To you everything in life is about tribe. What a life!
What about those who are mad coz of weed?
Let us treat our friends who are mentally ill us if they are out cast Jehovah is watching.