Court Battle Over UK Baby Raises Ethical Conundrum
A five-month legal battle over the fate of a terminally-ill British baby that drew the attention of Pope Francis and ...
Tag: Medical ethics
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 ...
Kidney Traffickers Arrested In Cambodia
Two Cambodians have been arrested for allegedly trafficking at least ten organ donors to India for illegal kidney transplants worth ...
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 frequency ...
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 ...
‘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, ...
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 their ...
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 undergraduates from ...
Forum Decries Proliferation of Quacks In Health Facilities
Stakeholders in the health sector have expressed worry about the proliferation of unqualified health personnel in health facilities, saying the ...
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 authority is, as well, ...
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 Health Insurance ...
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 seriousness in ...
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 seriousness in ...
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 absence of ...
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 employing mental ...
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. Authorities ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 professionals in the ...
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 ...