The Mental Health Authority has said the absence of nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, is worsening the already dire situation at the facility. The psychiatric nurses on Friday October 28,...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei has disclosed that a whooping GHS700, 000 will be needed to effectively run the Accra Psychiatric Hospital monthly....
President John Mahama has assured that the current impasse at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital will be resolved within the shortest possible time. This President’s comment comes after the Mental...
The Mental Health Authority has ordered management of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to discharge more than 300 patients on admission at the facility. Nurses at the hospital started an indefinite...
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...
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...
Nurses at the country’s foremost psychiatric hospital, Accra Psychiatric Hospital, have begun a sit-down strike dubbed ‘Run from Danger’. According to the nurses, the action is to draw...
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...
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 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...
The Accra Psychiatric Hospital is set to re-open its Outpatient Department to offer services to the general public from Monday. The hospital shutdown its outpatient department three days ago due to...
The Chief Psychiatrist, Dr Akwasi Osei, has advocated decriminalising suicide in the country. He said rather than punishing victims who attempted suicide, families and communities should help them to...
It has emerged that more youth in Ghana are committing suicide in recent times, with persons as young as 11 years attempting to take their lives one way or the other. This was revealed by the Chief...
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...
The number of mentally challenged patients roaming the streets in the country could increase significantly due to the increase in fees at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
The hospital, a few weeks...
