World Mental Health Day 2024 | Message from Dr Georges Alfred Ki Zerbo, WHO Iraq Representative

Dr. Georges Alfred Ki-Zerbo 

WHO Representative and Head of Mission 

Baghdad, Iraq 

“Today, we mark World Mental Health Day. The global scale of the mental health challenge is immense. 

In 2019, nearly one billion people worldwide lived with a mental disorder, including anxiety, depression, bipolar and schizophrenia. 

Globally, 15 per cent of working-age adults have a mental disorder at any point in time. 

This translates to one in six people. 

Let us come together today and join in observing this year's World Mental Health Day, together with Dr. Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director EMRO, and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO Geneva. 

We do that at the national, regional and global levels. 

Shukhran.”

Video produced by the Strategic Communications and Public Information Office (SCPIO) of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Iraq. 

10 October 2024 

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