President John Dramani Mahama has stated that although he is unaware about a recent threat by staff of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to strike following the numerous challenges facing the facility,...
President John Dramani Mahama has said he is unaware of the challenges facing the management and staff of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. The Hospital has in recent times been battling with a number...
President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that he is unaware of the strike action being embarked on by the nurses of the Accra Psychiatric hospital. The president who was speaking on Sunrise radio...
Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general elections, especially the candidates, to restrain their emotional outburst to...
Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general elections, especially the candidates, to restrain their emotional outburst to...
In the past few months or so, we have had to contend with disturbing news stories bordering on clearly mental challenges. When a man murders his mother and a house-help simultaneously, gruesomely, we...
A GNA feature by Dennis Peprah Mental illness, according to medicine, is a chronic disorder diagnosed, most often by a psychiatrist, of a behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering, or...
* They found they increased the risk of harm regardless of someone’s age * But some scientists argue the findings and say they are beneficial Healthy people who take antidepressants are twice as...
Dr. Akwasi Osei, Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority has revealed that more that 2.3 million of Ghana’s population is suffering from various mental challenges. He observes that...
The Ghana Mental Health Authority has warned that a project it initiated to take six thousand mentally ill patients off the streets of the country is in limbo. This is because the authority is cash...
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...
By the time his parents brought him to the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, he had pierced his body with blades and knives. The 23-year-old university undergraduate looked cool,...
Mr Joseph Yere, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinator of Mental Health, has appealed to the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) to assist and confine patients with mental illness roaming the streets of...
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...
Mental health authorities in the Brong Ahafo Region have expressed worry over the rising number of mental health patients roaming the streets in the region, especially its capital.
Over 600 mental...
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...
