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Psychiatric Hospital Frees Patients Over Strike

Managers at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have started discharging patients as they struggle to take care of them. The...

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Psychiatric Hospital Impasse Will Be Resolved – Mahama Assures

President John Mahama has assured that the current impasse at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital will be resolved within...

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I Am Unaware of Strike At the Accra Psychiatric Hospital – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that he is unaware of the strike action being embarked on by the nurses of...

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Psychiatric Hospital To Release 300 Patients Over Strike

The Mental Health Authority has ordered management of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to discharge more than 300...

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Former CEO of Accra Psychiatric Hospital Backs Striking Nurses

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Akwasi Osei is justifying the strike by nurses at...

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Accra Psychiatric Nurses On Strike

Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have started a full-blown strike today, Monday 31 October. It follows what...

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Psychiatric Nurses Declare Strike Over ‘dangerous Working Environment’

Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have declared an indefinite strike effective Monday October 31 over what they...

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Psychiatric Nurses Declare Strike Over “dangerous Working Environment”

Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have declared an indefinite strike effective Monday October 31 over what they...

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NDC’s Vision For Health Care

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says its vision for the health sector will make Ghana one of the best countries...

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Run From Danger, Pass the LI Of The Mental Health Law To Save Mental Healthcare From Imminent Danger

The continuous hue and cry by healthcare providers in the mental healthcare sector especially psychiatric nurses and...

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Crunch Meeting Over Deplorable Conditions of Psychiatric Nurses

Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric are set for an emergency meeting with the Mental Health Authority Board over the...

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Psychiatrist Warns Politicians of Mental Attack On Election Day

Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general...

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Psychiatrist Warns Politicians of Mental Attack On Election Day If…

Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general...

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Dangerous Telltale Signs

In the past few months or so, we have had to contend with disturbing news stories bordering on clearly mental...

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Mental Illness Is Not A Curse

A GNA feature by Dennis Peprah Mental illness, according to medicine, is a chronic disorder diagnosed, most often by a...

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2.3 Million Ghanaians ‘mad’

Dr. Akwasi Osei, Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority has revealed that more that 2.3 million of...

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Plans To House 6000 ‘mad’ People In Limbo

The Ghana Mental Health Authority has warned that a project it initiated to take six thousand mentally ill patients off...

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Vote For Mental Health. One Region, One Psychiatric Hospital. One District, One Psychiatrist

The euphoria, enthusiasm and joy with which the passage of the Mental Health Act (Act 846) came with, somewhere in...

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Accra Psychiatric To Re-Open For OPD Services Monday

The Accra Psychiatric Hospital is set to re-open its Outpatient Department  to offer services to the general public...