Parliament’s Select Committees on Health and Lands and Forestry have jointly ordered all private developers on Pantang Psychiatric Hospital lands to stop work and produce all necessary documents for further engagement. A visit by members of the joint committee on Health as well as Lands and Forestry on Tuesday was a follow-up to the recent … Read more
Three days after a sit-down strike, staff and student nurses of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra Region yesterday embarked on a demonstration to demand the occupied portions of lands by encroachers belonging to the hospital. After years of unfettered encroachment on lands belonging to the Psychiatric Hospital, the nurses resolved that “enough is … Read more
Staff of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have called of their strike following a crunch meeting with the Minister of Health. Kwaku Agyemang Manu was at the hospital on Wednesday to hear the workers’ grievances as regards the encroachment of lands in front of the medical facility. Together with Medical Director Dr Frank Baning and Chief Executive … Read more
Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have called off their strike following an intervention by the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu. They had earlier resolved not to return to work until government addressed the total take over of the frontage of the hospital by private developers. Speaking to the press , the Minister of … Read more
Staff of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital on Wednesday marched from the medical facility to Adenta-Barrier, and back, to register their displeasure at the mass encroachment on their lands. This is the second in a series of industrial actions by staff to get government to stop the encroachment in front of the hospital. On Monday, staff embarked … Read more
Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health Collins Ntim has disclosed that Parliament will soon haul the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, before it to answer some questions concerning the Pantang land encroachment issue. The Offinso North Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development also believes that Parliament’s intervention … Read more
Striking nurses at the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in Accra are turning away new patients after the Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority Dr. Akwasi Osei failed to convince them to back down on their ongoing protest. The nurses are protesting the failure of government to stop the activities of private individuals who are … Read more
Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have begun an industrial action, which will see workers not doing any work though reporting to work. The sit-down strike is in protest to the mass encroachment on lands in front of the medical facility. Staff say the situation is hampering operations of the Hospital while they are also … Read more
Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital will commence a sit-down strike from today [Monday] following the failure by the government to take action against private developers encroaching on the hospital’s land. The staff had earlier served notice of their intended strike and insist that they will lay down tools and hit the streets if the situation … Read more
Kwaw Kese donated items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital on Tuesday, February 14. The facility is responsible for the treatment, welfare, training and rehabilitation of the mentally ill. Dubbed Feast With Kwaw Kese, it was the rapper’s way of sharing love with the patients and the workforce on the day celebrated around the … Read more
Kwaw Kese donated items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital yesterday. The facility is responsible for the treatment, welfare, training and rehabilitation of the mentally ill. Dubbed Feast With Kwaw Kese, it was the rapper’s way of sharing love with the patients and the workforce on the day celebrated around the world as the … Read more
Renowned Ghanaian Hiplife artist, ‘Kwaw Kese’ has debunked rumours circulating on social media that he has a grudge with the ‘confession’ hitmaker, Kofi Kinaata. According to him, he respectfully loves the reigning Ghana Music Awards Song Writer of the Year with no fuss, reason why he is part of his upcoming video shoot for the … Read more
Hiplife artiste Emmanuel Botwe, popularly known as Kwaw Kese, has reiterated an earlier claim that there is no Ghanaian entertainment person owns $1 million house in the country. The musician noted that such claims by some musicians are false. Recently, musicians Fuse ODG and Shatta Wale claimed that they have purchased mansions worth $1 million … Read more
Ghanaian Rapper, Kwaw Kese, will on Tuesday February 14 feed about 1000 inmates of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in Adenta in the spirit of the season of love. Kwaw Kese after he was convicted in November 2014 for smoking marijuana in public launched the Kwaw Kese foundation with the aim of transforming Ghana prisons. The … Read more
In the rat race for survival and fulfillment in Ghana today, it is not only the privileged applying ways and means in beating the heat that the system throws at ordinary, decent people. Possibly leading the pack among the lowly in that race today are our dreaded mortuary attendants, our investigations reveal. As you read … Read more
The Ashanti regional Organiser of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Stephen Amoah popularly called ‘Sticker’ has observed that Sunday was Ghana’s ‘day of shame’ as monies were doled out to NDC supporters at Asawase during the President’s health walk. He wondered why the President would not concentrate on channeling State resources into providing jobs … Read more
The continuous hue and cry by healthcare providers in the mental healthcare sector especially psychiatric nurses and doctors for help has reached an unbearable tone and if care is not taken by the appropriate authorities to salvage the sinking image of the sector, the imminent danger faces it will be inevitable. The continuous ‘cries’ and … Read more
The euphoria, enthusiasm and joy with which the passage of the Mental Health Act (Act 846) came with, somewhere in March 2012 have evaporated into thin air like morning dew beyond the immediate cognisance of the mind. The ambience of excitement on the 2nd of March 2012 is a dream never fulfilled and the hope … Read more
One of the stories in yesterday’s edition was about the so-called crash-landing of a witch in Kumasi: the umpteenth time the weird and unsubstantiated occurrence has taken place in the country. Various parts of the country have varying stories about so-called witches and we wonder why females always have to suffer such negative branding. We … Read more
At least 10,250.000 Ghanaians, predominantly women, are suffering from mental distress and depression, the Chief Psychiatrist of the Ghana Health Service, has said. The number represents 41 per cent of the population. According to Dr Akwasi Osei, who is also the Chief Psychiatrist in charge of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, mental health had become a … Read more