GHANA’S mental health system is currently on its knees as nurses at the biggest mental health facility, Accra Psychiatric Hospital, have embarked on an exercise dubbed #StayAwayFromDanger in protest of bad working conditions which tend to affect the efficiency of service delivery at the facility and also patients welfare. The nurses, prior to this action, … 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 All People’s Congress (APC) has accused the Mahama-led administration of stealing their policy which will see more psychiatric hospitals being built in the country. General Secretary of the APC, Razak Opoku, in an interview said their party was the first to promise a psychiatric hospital in all ten regions of the country and wondered … Read more
The ‘notoriety’ of the name Ankaful, when mentioned, is enough to hijack someone’s thought to fixate on mental patients before further clarification could release them from such prejudice. The inclination to associate or think of mental illness or psychiatric patients when the town Ankaful is mentioned or vice versa is predominantly attributed to the presence … Read more
The number of mentally challenged patients roaming the streets in the country could increase significantly due to the increase in fees at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. The hospital, a few weeks ago, increased its service charges to help it keep up with its operational cost and “to supplement funding by the central government towards the … Read more