Learning from low income countries: what are the lessons?: Partnerships in mental health are possible without multidisciplinary teams

EDITOR—In the United Kingdom a generic specialist multidisciplinary mental health service for children and adolescents at tier 3, with teaching responsibilities, providing evidence based interventions for 0-17 year olds, would need a minimum of 20 whole time equivalents per 100 000 population.1 In the university hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria, one child psychiatrist serves a population of three million …