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Lagos Launches New Mental Health Helpline, Marks World Mental Health Day 2024

Volunteers hold ceremonial green balloons, symbolizing hope and resilience in the face of mental health challenges, during the launch of the new Mental Health Helpline, 0700 000 MIND (0700 000 6463), at the ''Lift Up Hope'' event. This event is organized to mark World Mental Health Day 2024 with the theme, ''Roadmap to Implementing Employee Assistance Programmes,'' highlighting key strategies for promoting mental well-being in the workplace, in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto)

Lagos Launches New Mental Health Helpline, Marks World Mental Health Day 2024

Dr. Olusegun Ogboye, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Lagos State, and Dr. Gbonjubola Abiri, Consultant Psychiatrist, RediMed Consulting, release ceremonial green balloons, symbolizing hope and resilience in the face of mental health challenges, during the launch of the new Mental Health Helpline, 0700 000 MIND (0700 000 6463), at the ''Lift Up Hope'' event. This event is organized to mark World Mental Health Day 2024 with the theme, ''Roadmap to Implementing Employee Assistance Programmes,'' highlighting key strategies for promoting mental well-being in the workplace, held in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto)

Lagos Launches New Mental Health Helpline, Marks World Mental Health Day 2024

Ceremonial green balloons, symbolizing hope and resilience in the face of mental health challenges, are released during the launch of the new Mental Health Helpline, 0700 000 MIND (0700 000 6463), at the ''Lift Up Hope'' event. This event is organized to mark World Mental Health Day 2024 with the theme, ''Roadmap to Implementing Employee Assistance Programmes,'' highlighting key strategies for promoting mental well-being in the workplace, held in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto)

Lagos Launches New Mental Health Helpline, Marks World Mental Health Day 2024

Ceremonial green balloons, symbolizing hope and resilience in the face of mental health challenges, are released during the launch of the new Mental Health Helpline, 0700 000 MIND (0700 000 6463), at the ''Lift Up Hope'' event. This event is organized to mark World Mental Health Day 2024 with the theme, ''Roadmap to Implementing Employee Assistance Programmes,'' highlighting key strategies for promoting mental well-being in the workplace, held in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto)

Lagos Launches TB Steering Committee And STOP TB Partnership

Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, First Lady of Lagos State, inducts Oluremi Hamzat, wife of the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, as a member of the Lagos State TB Steering Committee. Lagos State aims to address the issue of Tuberculosis (TB) at the grassroots level by inducting TB Champions/Ambassadors and inaugurating the Lagos State TB Steering Committee and the Lagos STOP TB Partnership in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on October 8, 2024. ''In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million people (5.8 million men, 3.5 million women, and 1.3 million children) fall ill with TB worldwide, with 2,480,000 people with TB in Africa, one person every 30 seconds, and 479,000 people with TB disease in Nigeria in 2023, and 18,541 Lagosians with TB in 2023,'' Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, First Lady of Lagos, quotes the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2023. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi)