Prisoner Or Patient? The Fate of Ghana’s Mentally Ill Offender
The Ghana Prisons Service is mandated by law to ensure the safe custody, welfare, reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners whenever ...
Tag: Psychiatric hospital
Director of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital Removed To Appease Staff
Dr. Eugene Dordoye has been removed as the medical director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, a decision taken by the ...
Lunatics Invade Streets of Sekondi-Takoradi; Residents Cry Out For Help
Mentally ill persons have taken over the streets of Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis in the Western Region, raising concerns about the safety ...
Ankaful Staff Shirk Work Until ‘oppressive’ Director Trained
Nurses and physician assistants at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have decided to stay away from work ...
Nurses At Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital On Sit-Down Strike
Nurses at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital have escalated the demand for the removal of the hospital’s medical director among other ...
Ankaful Mental Hospital To Send Over 100 Patients of Home
The Authorities of Ankaful Psychiatric Mental Hospital in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem Municipal of the Central Region will soon ...
Lone Clinic In Syria’s Rebel North Tackles War’s Mental Toll
At an austere mental health clinic in northern Syria, male patients with shaved heads squat barefoot in a courtyard, some ...
Nurses Hit Streets With ‘Yegye Y’asaase Demo
Three days after a sit-down strike, staff and student nurses of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra Region yesterday ...
16 Mental Patients Forced To Fast In Chains Rescued
A total of 16 mentally deranged persons who were chained to trees for years and forced to fast to fast ...
Increased Mental Patients On Our Streets Worrying
Psychiatric disorders (mental illness) according to experts can be caused by a predisposing factor. This means that it is genetic ...
Do You Know Your Mental Health Status?
play videoMental health care is one of the biggest challenges confronting the Ghanaian health sector In 2012, Ghana passed Mental ...
NGO Donates To Accra Psychiatric Hospital Ahead of May 5 Fundraising Event
As part of measures to improve healthcare delivery in the country, Phoenix Resource Centre Global Aid Ghana (PRCGA), a Ghanaian-based ...
Yamin Must Visit the Psychiatrist Soonest
The Brong Ahafo Regional youth organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe affectionately called Abronye DC, has hit ...
Man, 34, Arrested For Killing Sex Worker
A 34-year-old man, Isaac Sackey, is being held by the police for allegedly murdering a commercial sex worker who allegedly ...
Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital In Shambles
play videoSome patients of the Ankaful Mental Health Facility loitering around the compound The Ankaful Psychiatric hospital in the Central ...
Mahama ‘gunman’ Finally Released From BNI Cells
Charles Antwi, 36-year-old man who has been accused of trying to assassinate President John Mahama has finally been released from ...
Man Who Attempted To Kill Mahama Finally Gets His Freedom
Charles Antwi, the man who was once jailed 10 years for attempting to kill President John Mahama, has finally regained ...
Man Who Wanted To Kill Prez Mahama Finally Gets His Freedom
Charles Antwi, the man who was once jailed 10 years for attempting to kill President John Mahama, has finally regained ...
Mahama Gun Man To Be Released By Xmas – Lawyer Sosu
Renowned Human Rights lawyer, Francis Xavier Sosu, is expected to file a formal petition to the Attorney General’s Department for ...
Wasting Insane Youths In The Streets
In this report, Odimegwu Onwumere writes that a compassionate Nigerian rescued an insane young lady from the Abuja streets recently ...