The dire situation of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital has deteriorated to the point where the facility does not even have access to basic items such as A-4 sheets to take down minor but critical...
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...
Manifesto equivalence trying to outdo political equivalence. This is what our last week was all about. After launching their 2016 manifesto and pointing out how much bigger it was than the NPP...
Florence Nightingale is the goddess of the nursing profession. She is profoundly referred to as “the mother of nursing” because she laid the foundation and standard for modern nursing and today...
Parents are hardwired to love and protect their child from birth to death no matter what. That is how human beings thrive and survive. When a child reaches adolescence and young adulthood and is...
The All People’s Congress (APC) has accused the Mahama-led administration of stealing their policy which will see more psychiatric hospitals being built in the country. General Secretary of the...
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer for the December elections, President John Mahama, has said the next NDC administration after 2016, will push for the allocation of petroleum revenue...
The All People’s Congress (APC) has promised to establish a psychiatric hospital in all ten regions of the country as it outdoors what it describes as its “feasible and doable social intervention...
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...
U. S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Monday outlined a sweeping mental health agenda that would integrate the mental health services into the nation's health care system....
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...
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...
