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...
Managers at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have started discharging patients as they struggle to take care of them. The hospital is taking this drastic decision after nurses there decided to stay...
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...
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...
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...
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Akwasi Osei is justifying the strike by nurses at the facility. Speaking on 3FM’s Sunrise morning Show, Dr. Akwasi Osei...
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have started a full-blown strike today, Monday 31 October. It follows what they describe as “fruitless” dialogue between them and the authorities. Below...
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have declared an indefinite strike effective Monday October 31 over what they describe as “dangerous working environment” following attacks on the nurses...
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have declared an indefinite strike effective Monday October 31 over what they describe as “dangerous working environment” following attacks on the nurses...
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says its vision for the health sector will make Ghana one of the best countries with a strong healthcare system. Not only does the party consider the sector as...
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...
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric are set for an emergency meeting with the Mental Health Authority Board over the deteriorating conditions at the facility and the deplorable working conditions they...
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...
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...
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...
