Church donates to Psychiatric Hospital

Accra, Dec. 26, GNA - The West Volta Presbytery Women Fellowship of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana on Friday donated assorted items valued at over 30 million cedis to the inmates of the female ward of the Psychiatric Hospital.

The goods, including soaps, drinks, rice, sugar, cooking oil and biscuits were presented to inmates of the hospital at the annual Christmas get together organised by the fellowship on Friday. The Fellowship had been organizing the programme for the inmates since the Church adopted the ward some 14 years ago.

The Reverend Mrs Nyuime Adiepena, West Volta Presbytery Coordinator, said it was important for women to devise innovative ways to help prevent their colleagues from coming into the psychiatric hospital. This, she said, they could do by showing love and understanding at all times to their fellow human beings, who were being abused and oppressed.

Rev. Mrs Adiepena urged representatives of district fellowships to draw programmes aimed at enhancing their economic and social development.

In a sermon Rev. Francis Amenu condemned the lukewarm attitude of society towards the weak and the vulnerable and called for support for them to lessen their plight.

He, therefore, urged the Church to provide the less fortunate people with their needs and called for the end to domestic violence and the abuse of maidservants.

Rev. Amenu stressed love and fellow feeling in families, communities and in nations as the only means through which abuse of human rights could end.

Dr J. B. Asare, Head of the Psychiatric Hospital, thanked the church for the donation.