Tag: mental patients
Trust Jesus Foundation dines with mental patients
Trust Jesus Foundation (TJF) has feted and fellowship with patients of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
The fellowship took the form of...
Abena Tay Ministry shows love to female patients of Accra Psychiatric Hospital
Abena Tay Ministry in collaboration with Women in Gospel Music has organised Mothers’ Day Musical Concert for mothers and female patients of the Accra...
Sports Can Promote Quick Recovery for Mental Patients
The Second Edition of the Care and Action for Mental Health in Africa (CAMHA) sports event, has been held with a call to collectively...
Statutory Instrument on Mental Health is Appropriate – Dr Osei
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of the half-year review conference of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital on Tuesday, he said...
We Need More Psychologists In Ghana
According to whole health organisation, It is estimated that of the 21.6 million people living in Ghana, 650,000 are suffering from a severe mental...
Ghanaian Media Urged To Stop Stigmatizing Mental Patients
The use of words such as “madman” “lunatic” and ‘imbecile” in reportage were considered dehumanizing. Such words stigmatization the patients and could attract a...
Mental patients, caregivers sensitised on Mental Health Act
Mental health patients and care-givers from three districts in the Northern Region have attended a sensitisation workshop to build their capacity on provisions in...
Treat mental patients well
By Oswald Nana Boateng
The Techiman Coordinator of Brong Ahafo Network of Non-Governmental Organisations (BANGO), Mr Mustapha M. Yeboah, has expressed worry over the increasing...
Abura Dunkwa Psychiatric Hospital lack medicines
More than 300 mental patients visiting Abura Dunkwa Psychiatric Hospital cannot access essential medicines, because they are either not available or expensive.
The hospital says...
Mental Health In Ghana A National Issue
Showing On GTV On?Tuesday 11 November 2014 At 8 Pm
Amoo was a bright and promising young man until he fell mentally ill. Dejected by...
Modernising Mental Health Care Delivery in Ghana
The Mental Health Authority (MHA), had been urged to train local pastors, otherwise known as faith healers and herbalists, on mental health care delivery,...
U/E Region marks World Mental Health Day
As Ghana marked World Mental Health Day, mental patients in the Upper East Region have no access to the psychotropic medicine often administered to...