Faith Healers to be educated on Code of Ethics

Ekumfi Adansi (C/R), Nov, 11, GNA - The Traditional Medicine Practitioners Council (TMPC) has lined up training workshops for members of the Ghana Association of Faith Healers (GAFH) to build their capacity on the rules and the code of ethics of the association. Mr. Maxwell Amedewonu, the Administrator of the Association, made this known to the Ghana News Agency at the 69th annual convention of the Grace Devine Healing Ministry at Ekumfi Adansi. Mr. Amedewonu said though the TMPC, with support from the Ministry of Health, had drawn up a code of ethics for GATH but because most of the members were not conversant with them they tended to do things their own ways.

He welcomed the training workshops and said they would streamline things especially about infringing on the rights of their clients. Prophetess Grace Owusu-Mensah, the Leader of the Ministry and an executive member of GATH, cautioned members against making claims about diseases they could heal.

That attitude, she said, had brought disgrace to many members since the power of healing was from God and urged healers to be reasonable in making demands on clients.

In a sermon, Mr. Emmanuel Arthur, Caretaker of Nyakokwaa Methodist church near Bawjiase, urged Christians to leave the old ways of life and take a new one which could lead them to God "Let us all be seen as people who have been born again by doing away with our bad behaviour," he said.