President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Mike Ogirima said that if the Mental Health Bill is passed, it would protect the rights of people with mental health illness as well as attract respect and dignity for them as they access health care.
Chairman of NMA in Imo State, Darlington Akukwu, in a statement issued in Owerri, the State capital, noted that the health sector is in danger, as the policies of the State government were not encouraging.