Nurses’ Strike Affecting Mental Healthcare
The Mental Health Authority has said the absence of nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, is worsening the already dire ...
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Accra Psychiatric Hospital Needs GHC70k To Run Monthly – Akwasi Osei
The Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei has disclosed that a whooping GHS700, 000 will ...
Psychiatric Hospital Impasse Will Be Resolved – Mahama Assures
President John Mahama has assured that the current impasse at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital will be resolved within the shortest ...
Psychiatric Hospital To Release 300 Patients Over Strike
The Mental Health Authority has ordered management of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to discharge more than 300 patients on admission ...
Run From Danger, Pass the LI Of The Mental Health Law To Save Mental Healthcare From Imminent Danger
The continuous hue and cry by healthcare providers in the mental healthcare sector especially psychiatric nurses and doctors for help ...
Psychiatrist Warns Politicians of Mental Attack On Election Day
Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general elections, especially ...
Psychiatrist Warns Politicians of Mental Attack On Election Day If…
Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general elections, especially ...
Psychiatric Nurses Begin ‘Run From Danger’ Strike
Nurses at the country’s foremost psychiatric hospital, Accra Psychiatric Hospital, have begun a sit-down strike dubbed ‘Run from Danger’. According ...
Patients Roam the Streets As Ankful Psychiatric Hospital Wallows In GHC10m Debt
Mental patients still wander in the streets of the Central Region despite thirty-five thousand cedis (35, 000) provided last year ...
2.3 Million Ghanaians ‘mad’
Dr. Akwasi Osei, Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority has revealed that more that 2.3 million of Ghana’s ...
Vote For Mental Health. One Region, One Psychiatric Hospital. One District, One Psychiatrist
The euphoria, enthusiasm and joy with which the passage of the Mental Health Act (Act 846) came with, somewhere in ...
Accra Psychiatric To Re-Open For OPD Services Monday
The Accra Psychiatric Hospital is set to re-open its Outpatient Department to offer services to the general public from Monday. ...
Decriminalise Suicide — Chief Psychiatrist
The Chief Psychiatrist, Dr Akwasi Osei, has advocated decriminalising suicide in the country. He said rather than punishing victims who ...
More Youth Committing Suicide In Ghana, Media Blamed For It
It has emerged that more youth in Ghana are committing suicide in recent times, with persons as young as 11 ...
Over 600 Mental Patients Roam Brong Ahafo Streets
Mental health authorities in the Brong Ahafo Region have expressed worry over the rising number of mental health patients roaming ...
Number of Psychiatric Patients Roaming the Streets of Ghana to Increase Significantly
The number of mentally challenged patients roaming the streets in the country could increase significantly due to the increase in ...