Accra psychiatric hospital broke; inmates to starve

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anna 9 years ago

Ndc does not care thieves the nation

Non

Ndc does not care thieves the nation

Non
Queen 9 years ago

No funds and AyariBIN, AyariTA has the audacity to dash out Millions and Millions of cedis to footballl players because of stupidity/nonsense.

No funds and AyariBIN, AyariTA has the audacity to dash out Millions and Millions of cedis to footballl players because of stupidity/nonsense.
ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

an idiot oldman

an idiot oldman
KWAKU ANANSE 9 years ago

YOU ARE AN INSANE YOUNGMAN.

YOU ARE AN INSANE YOUNGMAN.
Abbe 9 years ago

You belong there ! Have some compassion for the sick !

You belong there ! Have some compassion for the sick !
Douglas . Bristol-UK 9 years ago

they should refund it cos we are planning to bring Akufo addo and bawumia there.they are physically and mentally weak

they should refund it cos we are planning to bring Akufo addo and bawumia there.they are physically and mentally weak
Ibrahim 9 years ago

They are patients not inmates,

They are patients not inmates,
Patrick 9 years ago

Very well said, Ibrahim! We all know that the current government and previous ones have spent very little or nothing in our Psychiatric services, and it's a big shame that the ministry of health is and has done nothing positi ...
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Very well said, Ibrahim! We all know that the current government and previous ones have spent very little or nothing in our Psychiatric services, and it's a big shame that the ministry of health is and has done nothing positively to improve standards there.
Dan Taylor 9 years ago

This is a very sad situation and not happening for the first time. Indeed it's an indictment on us as a country not caring much about issues relating to mental health and persons with mental disorders as a whole.
After year ...
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This is a very sad situation and not happening for the first time. Indeed it's an indictment on us as a country not caring much about issues relating to mental health and persons with mental disorders as a whole.
After years of advocacy which culminated in the enactment of a modern day mental health legislation in March 2012, situations like these should have completely ceased or minimised significantly.
The mental health law requires that 8% of Ghana's annual total health budget must be allotted for mental health care and services. This is in addition to funds from other sources such as donor partners, corporate organizations etc. Why is it that after Parliament has approved budget estimates for the Ministry of Health since last year, the 8% due the Mental Health Authority has still not been released?
This clearly exemplifies how mental health issues are consigned ton the fringes by policy makers and administrators let alone segments of our society.
I hereby call on the Ministry of Health and gov't for that matter to release immediately the mandatory funds to the Mental Heatlh Authority to perform its functions smoothly and effectively.
Let's remember that all of us are vulnerable and likely to be affected with one mental health condition in our lifetime or another.
Mental illness is no respecter of persons and so dare to care!!!!
A word to the wise is enough!
Monica 9 years ago

All the money has gone to the Black Stars and useless football when there are such dire matters in the country to be dealt with. Just 3million cedis? The 25000 dollars for 1 player can take care of that and more. Not counting ...
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All the money has gone to the Black Stars and useless football when there are such dire matters in the country to be dealt with. Just 3million cedis? The 25000 dollars for 1 player can take care of that and more. Not counting what goes into the pockets of the hangers on, namely the GFA, ministers and govt. officials.
YAW BRONX 9 years ago

THIS STUPID AND USELESS GOVT HAS MESSED UP EVERYTHING IN THE COUNTRY I WISH AM THERE TO SHOT HIM IN THE FACE AND KILL HIM INSTANTLY..

THIS STUPID AND USELESS GOVT HAS MESSED UP EVERYTHING IN THE COUNTRY I WISH AM THERE TO SHOT HIM IN THE FACE AND KILL HIM INSTANTLY..
mokola 9 years ago

yaw Bronx, I bet you have no visa and you are hiding in your filthy ghetto apartment. I dare you to shoot anyone in the Bronx and you will be a dead person. grow up and be a sensible and have some respect. stop being a ghetto ...
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yaw Bronx, I bet you have no visa and you are hiding in your filthy ghetto apartment. I dare you to shoot anyone in the Bronx and you will be a dead person. grow up and be a sensible and have some respect. stop being a ghetto kid
Nana Effah 9 years ago

Patients are in hospitals and inmates are in prisons. Lease, choose your words with precision.

Patients are in hospitals and inmates are in prisons. Lease, choose your words with precision.
Mr. Kofi 9 years ago

So what is working in Ghana now?

So what is working in Ghana now?
Llord 9 years ago

What is Dr. Osei's contact if one wants to help?

What is Dr. Osei's contact if one wants to help?
Dan Taylor 9 years ago

It's indeed refreshing for people like you to come out and help in such hopeless but preventable situations in our psychiatric hospitals and mental health delivery system in Ghana.
Dr. Osei's contact is: akwasiosei@yahoo.co ...
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It's indeed refreshing for people like you to come out and help in such hopeless but preventable situations in our psychiatric hospitals and mental health delivery system in Ghana.
Dr. Osei's contact is: akwasiosei@yahoo.com

Working with an NGO whose core mandate concerns persons with mental disorders and the mental health delivery network in Ghana, I've lots of insight into what's happening therein.
akua mustapha laryea 9 years ago

Llord please inbox me your contact at bampoea@aol.com. will be happy to come on board with you. thanks

Llord please inbox me your contact at bampoea@aol.com. will be happy to come on board with you. thanks
I rest my case 9 years ago

While Accra Psychiaric Hospital is broke with inmates starving, ECG is threatening to cut the electricity of the School for the deaf in Ashanti region for non-paympent of Ghc. 92,000, our government spends Ghc. 8million on fo ...
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While Accra Psychiaric Hospital is broke with inmates starving, ECG is threatening to cut the electricity of the School for the deaf in Ashanti region for non-paympent of Ghc. 92,000, our government spends Ghc. 8million on football in the face of Dumsor killing small to medium size businesses and manufacturing in the country.
Blanko 9 years ago

The psychiatric hospital is not broke and the inmates will not starve. They are all in Flagstaff House trying to run the country with very full bellies and rolling in stolen cash.

The psychiatric hospital is not broke and the inmates will not starve. They are all in Flagstaff House trying to run the country with very full bellies and rolling in stolen cash.
WAITING TO VOTE NDC OUT 9 years ago

E dee bee k3k3 is what you wanted, yes you, isn't it?

E dee bee k3k3 is what you wanted, yes you, isn't it?
T K 9 years ago

This is really disturbing , heartbreaking . The government and the good for nothing MP'S and Ministers should do something about it. They should stop receiving that fat pay check and do something about it. They are doing not ...
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This is really disturbing , heartbreaking . The government and the good for nothing MP'S and Ministers should do something about it. They should stop receiving that fat pay check and do something about it. They are doing nothing to help the country and the poor Ghanaians . All they know and do is wearing women's clothing . They are all full of shit and corrupt , most painful part of it is they are all villagers and uneducated ,yea right , how can people like this run a country.
jessibella 9 years ago

release them into the the houses of the president and their ministers, some of them have more than 4 houses.. so there we go

release them into the the houses of the president and their ministers, some of them have more than 4 houses.. so there we go
ABCd 9 years ago

Indeed we have money to pay footballers please don't get me wrong here but the vulnerbale are left to strave and the same company paying for the footballers have not thought of helping or reaching out to plight of the Directo ...
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Indeed we have money to pay footballers please don't get me wrong here but the vulnerbale are left to strave and the same company paying for the footballers have not thought of helping or reaching out to plight of the Director plea. This is not the first time.
Jonas Kwaku Bilson 9 years ago

In the meantime we are paying Ministers huge salaries and we expect things to be different. The rot started long before this government. An alternate on with Nana and his NPP tribalists will not do any better. If fact worse b ...
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In the meantime we are paying Ministers huge salaries and we expect things to be different. The rot started long before this government. An alternate on with Nana and his NPP tribalists will not do any better. If fact worse because they will have more of the diminished resources.
NANA 9 years ago

If Ghanaians keep voting for useless politicians who don't care the ordinary citizens then they should not complain.

If Ghanaians keep voting for useless politicians who don't care the ordinary citizens then they should not complain.
Carlos 9 years ago

The attitude is wrong. Even the reporter is referring to patients as 'inmates'. Are they prisoners?

The attitude is wrong. Even the reporter is referring to patients as 'inmates'. Are they prisoners?
Kofi Mensah 9 years ago

Introduce herbal medicine in all the Psychiatric hospitals in Ghana. It will cut costs and make herbalists busy as they complain Government is neglecting them. I know all the herbs that make mental patients feel good.
This d ...
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Introduce herbal medicine in all the Psychiatric hospitals in Ghana. It will cut costs and make herbalists busy as they complain Government is neglecting them. I know all the herbs that make mental patients feel good.
This doctor should bring this to the attention of the government. mental patients hardly fully recover from the illness to be useful to society may be the reason for the tactics of the Ghana government.
if the lone crusader 9 years ago

You see how the nations resources are squandered? They always have shifted priorities .lord save ghana from this banana gov.

You see how the nations resources are squandered? They always have shifted priorities .lord save ghana from this banana gov.
My thoughts on the issue 9 years ago

How can you support, back and/or endorse a country that does not take care of its own people? The Ghanaian government is an insult to humanity.

How can you support, back and/or endorse a country that does not take care of its own people? The Ghanaian government is an insult to humanity.
Prince Yogin 9 years ago

Stupid government .Ndc is not a party but a trash

Stupid government .Ndc is not a party but a trash
NEEDS PSYCHIATRIC HELP 9 years ago

The first time this obvious lunatic caught my attention was when he strangely signed a letter claiming my brother,a colleague medical practitioner was suffering from what he termed 'possible delusional disorder' without evide ...
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The first time this obvious lunatic caught my attention was when he strangely signed a letter claiming my brother,a colleague medical practitioner was suffering from what he termed 'possible delusional disorder' without evidence.My brother was then subsequently sacked in a letter signed by the Director General Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira.The reason ascribed to my brother's dismissal was that he had refused to have compulsory assessment and treatment for a 'possible delusional disorder' never to be reinstated until he complies.This was the machination of the so-called chief psychiatrist of Ghana.This was also the action of a man who was all over the place to push the mental health bill into an act to create another office for himself called the Mental Health Authority which he now heads.I prayed hard to know who this character was being a health professional myself until one day somebody pointed him out at the corridors of the Ministry of Health as the man who criminally connived to dubiously implicate my brother with a mental illness in show of solidarity with fellow Akans.I could not help but laugh on the quiet when i saw him.In short a loud voice unkempt midget in over size suit and shoes was a sight to behold.But what immediately came to mind was his competence,character and capabilities in being the don of mental health in Ghana judging by his ludicrous and ridiculous action that caused my brother his job.There is no denying the fact that my brother was pursued with venom by the management of Effia Nkwanta Regional hospital who subjected him to some horrific and inhuman atrocities.The Medical Director,one Dr Ntodi they called him sacked my brother at the level of the regional hospital but was compelled to reinstate him when my brother won his case at CHRAJ Western Region.When the Medical Director subsequently vowed at a management meeting to get my brother expelled from the Ghana Health Service,he had an equally stupid idiot at top position to use in the person of the Chief Psychiatrist,Dr Akwasi Osei.Akwasi osei deliberately embarked on a journey to Effia Nkwanta hospital under the pretext of investigating two specialist who had fought in the hospital.In a conspiracy with the hospital management my brother was lured by his best friend and boss( now dating his ex-fiancee) Richard Anthony to be victimized by Akwasi Osei.Akwasi in typical show of tribal solidarity and nepotism defied all the evidence of gruesome inhuman atrocities against my brother in the hospital to criminally forge a mental illness against him used as bases to dismiss him from work.I honestly do not think Akwasi Osei action is an issue of intellectual dishonesty informed by tribal prejudice against a northerner he doesn't like.I think for a chief psychiatrist professing advocacy against abuse of the mentally ill and privileges and rights to be enjoyed by same to act the manner he acted particularly against a colleague doctor,there must be something fundamentally wrong in his own mental faculties.I am talking about an unusually bizarre and outrageous indiscretion of recommending the sacking of a colleague that he claims is suffering from a 'possible delusional disorder without any evidence.I am talking about the impulsive weird posture of the chief psychiatrist who mercilessly orchestrated the sacking of my brother against all odds with evidence of glaring atrocities in the office of GHS headquarters.I am talking about the ludicrous and ridiculous ideas of the chief psychiatrist who believe that the panacea to my brother's so-called 'possible delusional disorder' he diagnosed can best be managed by sacking him from work and terminating his salary.Even an elementary school boy know mental illnesses are triggered by subjecting people to stressful and painful experience.My brother's promotions and salary arrears were withheld for years by the Medical Director in conspiracy with elements at GHS headquarters.Akawsi Osei then compounded the stress by orchestrating his sacking ironically claiming he is suffering from 'possible delusional disorder'.This is the working style of the political chief psychiatrist of Ghana.I predicted some time ago when he was out making loud noise about clearing the streets of Accra of the mentally ill ,that Accra psychiatry hospital will rather collapse under his guidance and i am right.I am more than convinced this man is sick in the brain.Government should begin reforms in mental health by sacking him first.That is the only way mental health will improve.Any amount given to him will go down into the drain because you cannot have a lunatic managing fellow lunatics.That is recipe for disaster.
Okwei-Mensah 9 years ago

Delusional people think they are not sick!

Delusional people think they are not sick!
Okwei-Mensah 9 years ago

Useless NDC

Useless NDC
nana 1 sharp 9 years ago

hahaha oooo Mahaman you are a foool

hahaha oooo Mahaman you are a foool
ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

i mean our toilet

i mean our toilet
KWAKU ANANSE 9 years ago

YOU WILL HAVE YOUR SENSES IN ORDER IN YOU EAT LATRINE.

YOU WILL HAVE YOUR SENSES IN ORDER IN YOU EAT LATRINE.
nana 1 sharp 9 years ago

ooo God I miss those history days when we the Akans split the heads of northerns and abused the ewes ...fuck them woman and take their lands weak..and dirty Naggeas no good deed fools...yeah we master over you those days and ...
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ooo God I miss those history days when we the Akans split the heads of northerns and abused the ewes ...fuck them woman and take their lands weak..and dirty Naggeas no good deed fools...yeah we master over you those days and now you are in your brains we control your world as you are forced to speak the Akan be able to trade ...Bush Gods.povtery stricken maaaafuckers..weak naggas u are fucked up and you amount to nothing. ask the day of mansa musah ..when the powerful Akans rule the whole west Africa for 3 centuries
DENTERN 9 years ago

MISMANAGEMENT, CORRUPTION AT PLAY.

MISMANAGEMENT, CORRUPTION AT PLAY.
Sanam 9 years ago

Why is going on now in our dear nation it complaining everywhere but the government is making it look as if everything is ok to the outside world.It is dumsor,nurses and other workers not being paid,hospitals are crying for f ...
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Why is going on now in our dear nation it complaining everywhere but the government is making it look as if everything is ok to the outside world.It is dumsor,nurses and other workers not being paid,hospitals are crying for funding,no money fund our mental hospitals etc.please Mahama you really have to wake up and be no assertive and not allow this Asiedu Nketia and his people make you look more of a fool while they continue to steal with impunity because they believe all the talk will end up no where.
Criminal mahama. 9 years ago

We spend 8 mill dollars on Afcon. By ayariga.

We spend 8 mill dollars on Afcon. By ayariga.
KWAKU ANANSE 9 years ago

OH GHANA, WHY???????????? RELEASE THE INMATES OF THE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL AND LET THEM INVADE JOHN MAHAMA'S OFFICE AT JUBILEE HOUSE FOR FOOD.

OH GHANA, WHY???????????? RELEASE THE INMATES OF THE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL AND LET THEM INVADE JOHN MAHAMA'S OFFICE AT JUBILEE HOUSE FOR FOOD.

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