The number of mental health professionals in Eritrea is extremely limited. At the time of the data collection in 2004 there were only two psychiatrists including one attached to an international NGO, temporarily assisting the MoH and the St. Mary’s hospital.
Despite in Eritrean secondary schools, counselling services were commenced to cater for students with social, personal, psychological, educational and vocational problems. Guidance and counselling in the administration and management of students discipline in Eritrea has been accepted by the various government policy documents since the country’s independence in 1991. The Macro-Policy (1994) underscores the overall importance of human capital development to national development by providing lifelong and wide educational strategies which will bring about widespread learning in the Eritrean society at large (Andegiorgis, 2019).