Mombasa Women Empowerment Network (MWEN)Chairperson Amina Abdalla (centre) with other MWEN members cut a cake to commemorate the World Mental Health Day in Mombasa on October 10, 2020.
Unfortunately, the mental health effects of this pandemic only serve to compound an already terrible situation.
With close to a billion people having a mental illness, and almost a million of them dying by suicide every year, mental ill health is among the most serious global health threats of our time.
Yesterday we marked the World Mental Health Day, with the theme this year being ‘Move for mental health: Let’s invest’. In the context of Covid-19, there is broad agreement that the risk the pandemic poses to our mental health is great, and its effects are likely to last for a very long time.
Unfortunately, the mental health effects of this pandemic only serve to compound an already terrible situation. Historically, most governments have neglected mental health in their planning, and across the globe mental health remains largely peripheral to national health priorities.
