A Member of Parliament is proposing that an office is set up to provide counseling services to parliamentarians. According to the MP for Amenfi West, Eric Afful said it is dangerous that parliament...
Clinical psychologist and lecturer at the Central University College Aku Hayfron is appealing to the media to tone down on the attention on suicide cases. According to her, regular reports on the...
Society has not lived up to its responsibilities towards the youth hence the rise in suicide rates among young persons in the country, Mr Kweku Brobbey, the Public Relations Officer of the Mental...
An estimated 14 million people would lose insurance coverage in 2018 under the new Republican healthcare plan, according to a budget analysis. The long-awaited Republican plan was assessed by the...
The increasing rate of suicide in the country cannot be solved with only prayers but through strong family relations, the Movement for the Kingdom Image (MFKI) has said. This follows the recent spate...
IN the last four weeks, four cases of suicide have been widely reported in the media with three of the victims being teenagers. FIRST, there was the case of the KNUST student who was reported to have...
HEAD of National Health Insurance Authority, Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby has expressed her concerns about compromised health care in public hospitals. The Medical officer said this at Dr. E. C. Tamakloe...
The recent spate of suicides among Ghanaian youth is similar to the Ebola crisis that hit some West African states a few years ago, Dr Yaw Mfodwo, a consultant psychiatrist and Chief Executive...
Many of the deaths that occur on our roads that we comfortably refer to as accidents, are actually not accidents but "suicides and murders" occasioned by suicidal drivers and murderous stakeholders...
A former Finance Minister Dr Kwabena Duffuor has advised the government to focus on stabilizing the economy this year rather than pursuing growth, since the economic fundamentals are weak. Although...
play videoThe song dedicated to his brother who committed suicide at the age of 33 After unveiling the single last month, New Orleans MC Alfred Banks has returned with an emotionally-charged visual...
Former Ashanti and Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kweku Ayensu Opare-Addo, has kicked against the calls to de-criminalise suicide. DCOP Opare-Addo believes making the attempt to take...
Millions of vulnerable South Africans risk missing out on vital social security payments from next month in a scandal over a government contract, as the BBC's Milton Nkosi reports. "I'm extremely...
Statistics from the 2017 budget has revealed that the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government missed all its macro economic targets in 2016. Though inflation was projected to be 10.1%...
The 2017 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MMDAs) allocation to the Ministry of Health stands at GHs 4.2 billion. About half of the allocation will go into employee compensation with the least...
A Texas lawmaker has proposed a bill that would fine a man $100 each time he masturbates. The bill also imposes a 24-hour waiting period if a guy wants a colonoscopy or a vasectomy, or if he's in the...
South Africa says it will launch an "early warning" system with Nigeria to track and deter xenophobic attacks following a surge in violence in the rainbow nation. South Africa's Foreign Minister...
Malaysian censors have reportedly cut out a "gay moment" in the Disney film "Beauty and the Beast" before agreeing to its release in the Muslim-majority nation. The cuts come after the movie ran into...
Sally Antonio is exhausted from working three jobs since police killed her husband and son, a typical Philippine drug war widow enduring a life sentence of impoverished misery. While President...
Gay rights groups and child welfare advocates raised alarm Monday over what they see as legislative attempts in nearly two dozen US states to roll back recent anti-discrimination gains. The advocacy...
