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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 with no or...

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Kidney Traffickers Arrested In Cambodia

Two Cambodians have been arrested for allegedly trafficking at least ten organ donors to India for illegal kidney...

Headlines

Cannabis Extract Cuts Seizures For Epilepsy Patients

The first large-scale clinical trial of a cannabis derivative known as cannabidiol shows it was able to cut the...

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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...

International

‘I Went To the Web To Find A New Kidney’

‘I went to the web to find a new kidney’ - Matthew Pietrzyk Eleven-year-old Matthew Pietrzyk can now swim, run,...

International

Dutch Doctors Against ‘life Complete’ Assisted Suicide

Dutch doctors have come out against a controversial proposed law that would allow assisted suicide for those who feel...

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Regrettably and Painfully So, Suicide Is Gradually Creeping Into Our Society. The Evidence?

Over the last three weeks, we have had reports of seven people committing suicide including two young female...

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Forum Decries Proliferation of Quacks In Health Facilities

Stakeholders in the health sector have expressed worry about the proliferation of unqualified health personnel in...

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Mental Health Authority Provides Helpline For Persons Planning Suicide

The Mental Health Authority has decided to establish a temporary helpline for persons contemplating suicide. The...

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Calls To Include Mental Health Care In NHIS Intensified

Stakeholders in mental health care are worried about the continuous exemption of mental health care from the National...

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Invest In Mental Health To Reduce Suicides – Dr Osafo

A clinical psychologist and suicidologist at the University of Ghana, Dr. Joseph Osafo, has bemoaned the lack of...

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Invest In Mental Health To Reduce Suicides

A clinical psychologist and suicidologist at the University of Ghana, Dr. Joseph Osafo has bemoaned the lack of...

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Lack of Mental, Epileptic Drugs Hit Health Facilities; No Supply For Over A Yr

Mental and epileptic patients in the Northern Region requiring medical care have shunned health facilities due to the...

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Gov’t Urged To Improve Funding For Mental Health Care

The Ghana Mental Health Authority has appealed to government to commit resources to funding mental health care, by...

International

How Did Fort Lauderdale Suspect Get Gun Back?

He was incoherent and agitated. Voices in his head told him to join ISIS, according to law enforcement sources....

Opinion

Wasting Insane Youths In The Streets

In this report, Odimegwu Onwumere writes that a compassionate Nigerian rescued an insane young lady from the Abuja...

Opinion

Focus On Psychiatry And Psychiatric Nurses

So one Monday morning I was on my way to work cruising in a trotro, about two seats behind the conductor listening to...

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Health Expert Calls For Reorientation of Health Professionals On Mental Health

Health policy analyst, Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, wants the Ghana Health Service to reorient the training of health...

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We’ll Tackle Accra Psychiatric Hospital’s Challenges – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has stated that although he is unaware about a recent threat by staff of the Accra...