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...
Mental patients still wander in the streets of the Central Region despite thirty-five thousand cedis (35, 000) provided last year to rehabilitate them at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital. But...
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...
Florence Nightingale is the goddess of the nursing profession. She is profoundly referred to as “the mother of nursing” because she laid the foundation and standard for modern nursing and today...
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...
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...
