JosA father waited three days for a psychiatric bed.
Stabilized patients are discharged early to free space for emergencies.
Nigeria has fewer than 300 psychiatrists for over 200 million people, concentrated in a few teaching hospitals.
Jos University Teaching Hospital is training more psychiatric nurses to ease the backlog.
How each outlet framed it
- Premium Times Nigeria leans critical
- reconstructs patient discharge decisions to accommodate critical cases, illustrating psychiatric capacity crisis in North-central Nigeria
Sources: Premium Times Nigeria