Mental Health Road Walk
YABA KICK STARTS WORLD MENTAL DAY
WITH MENTAL HEALTH ROAD WALK
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| The 110th Anniversary of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba started today with members of staff, retirees and friends of the hospital embarking on a Health Walk. The Mental Health Train picked up from the hospital premises at about 8.45am and travelled through Murtala Mohammed Way to Sabo, Herbert Macaulay Way through Edmond Crescent and back to the hospital. |
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The Walk was thereafter followed by the World Mental Health Day Lecture. The day’s Thematic Lecture which was delivered by Dr. Femi Olugbile FRCPsych, FNIM was tagged ‘Mental Health in the Workplace’. Dr. Olugbile was a one-time Commissioner of Health in Lagos State as well as a past CMD of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital |
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