Mental health
Lunatics Invade Streets of Sekondi-Takoradi; Residents Cry Out For Help
Mentally ill persons have taken over the streets of Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis in the Western Region, raising concerns...
Ankaful Staff Shirk Work Until ‘oppressive’ Director Trained
Nurses and physician assistants at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have decided to stay away...
Alcoholism Rife Among Pregnant Women In Dormaa West District
Mrs Veronica Asamoah Tortor, the Dormaa West District Director of Health, has expressed worry about alcohol abuse among...
Drug Shortages Retard Recovery of Mental Patients
The nationwide intermittent shortages of mental health drugs is retarding the recovery process of patients in the...
Sack Our Director In A Week Or Risk Withdrawal of Services – Psychiatric Nurses
Nurses of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have threatened to withdraw their services and release...
Regent of Dagbon Vows To Protect Rights of Mental Health Patients
The Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya Naa Andani Yakubu has called for the immediate inclusion of mental illness in the...
Lone Clinic In Syria’s Rebel North Tackles War’s Mental Toll
At an austere mental health clinic in northern Syria, male patients with shaved heads squat barefoot in a courtyard,...
Judiciary Engaged On Mental Health Law
Ahead of the implementation of the Mental Health Law by the legislature, some top hierarchy members of the Mental...
Nurses Hit Streets With ‘Yegye Y’asaase Demo
Three days after a sit-down strike, staff and student nurses of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra...
‘Accra Psychiatric Hospital Soon To Shutdown’
Accra Psychiatric Hospital may soon shut down due to lack of funds, Chief Executive Mental Officer of the Mental Health...
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...
Accra Psychiatric Hospital May Soon Shut Down
The Accra Psychiatric Hospital may soon shut down due to lack of funds, Chief Executive Mental Officer of the Mental...
Gov’t Yet To Clear 3-Yr Debt of Accra Psychiatric Hospital
Almost a year after the government released about GH500,000 to offset part of a GHc4 million debt owed suppliers of the...
Gov’t Yet To Clear Accra Psychiatric Hospital’s 3-Year Debt
Almost a year after the government released about GHc 500,000 to offset part of a GHc4 million debt owed suppliers of...
Suicidologist Campaigns Discrimination Against Suicide
Dr Joseph Osafo, a Clinical Psychologist and Suicidologist, is advocating the de-criminalisation of suicide from the...
Increased Mental Patients On Our Streets Worrying
Psychiatric disorders (mental illness) according to experts can be caused by a predisposing factor. This means that it...
Phelps Joins Board of Australian Mental Health Firm
Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, Monday joined the board of an Australian mental health...
‘Conduct Free Compulsory Mental Health Screening For Every Ghanaian” -CPP Director of Communications To Akuffo Addo’
The communications director of the CPP in the Ashanti region has called on Government to conduct mental health...
Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’ Facing Prolonged Trauma
Aborigines belonging to Australia's so-called "Stolen Generations" Tuesday accused the government of prolonging their...