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...
State prosecutors are awaiting a report from the Psychiatric Hospital on the man who reportedly threw sachet water at President John Mahama during his recent tour of Agbogbloshie in Accra as part his...
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...
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 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...
A man who allegedly sprinkled some liquid on President John Dramani Mahama at the Agbogbloshie Yam Market during a tour has been put before an Accra Circuit Court. Akwasi Emmanuel, charged with...
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 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...
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...
