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Strikes are a sign of mental disorder - Chief Psychiatrist

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  • Agonaba 11 years ago

    Where is Ghana sick from?

  • OSLO 11 years ago

    As I understand the striking workers:(Doctors, teachers, anyone who goes on strike) shows sign of mental sickness. But Ghana is very SANE.

  • Gye Nyame 11 years ago

    Strikes are simply the results of the inability to resolve labor disputes. The doctor should stop the bullcrap about mental disorders; just because he is a physiologist does not mean that everything has to be explained with p ...
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  • ABIBA 11 years ago

    YOU PEOPLE MISUNDER STOOD THE DR. THE MENTAL ISSUES ARE PREVALENT WHEN PEOPLE CANNOT SIT DOWN AND TALK. THE DOCTORS HAVE HONORED THE LAST TWO APPOINTMENTS BUT THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO SHOW UP. TO ME THE MENTAL DEFFICIENCIES A ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    IF YOU BABY IS CRYING BCOS ITS HUNGRY. WHY WOULD U IGNORE THE BABY. AND GO AND FEED SOMEONE ELSE'S BABY? THIS IS NOT MENTAL ILLNESS. IT IS SIMPLY STUPIDITY AT ITS BEST. IF THE IOC ORGANIZED AN OLYMPIC EVENT FOR ALL NATIONAL L ...
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  • SHAMO 11 years ago

    I AGREE WITH THE ASPECT OF MENTAL DISTRESS.
    LOOK AT THE FACES OF DR. ADUSEI, AKROMEAH, KOFI JUMA SIR JOHN etc. WELL, I AM NOT GOING TO ARGUE WITH Chief Psychiatrist, Dr. Akwesi Osei who points out that, adding that a survey ...
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  • CTZ 11 years ago

    GHANAIAN HAS A LONG WAY TO GO!!!

  • Tibaa 11 years ago

    Yes, Ghana is in a state of matured psycho-somatic neuroticism; a debilitating affliction fueled by self-imposed infantilism, and peppered by self-mutilating, suicidal tendencies.

    What we need is collective psychoanalytic ...
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  • STEALERS 11 years ago

    Why do people just jump to conclude for others? Does he mean strikes is a sign of mental disoder?He is pyschiatrist and maybe he is sensing such disoders i guess

  • Kwesi 11 years ago

    Which DSM 4 or ICD 10 diagnosis will the chief psychiatrist label the spate of strikes, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder or schizoaffective disorder. Dr. Osei himself needs a psychiatrist evaluation for making such a statement ...
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  • Wise One 11 years ago

    If his patients were not deluded, they will be by the time he is done with them.

  • EA of NC 11 years ago

    Ff anyone has a mental deficiency I believe is this psychiatrist. When people are exhibiting their frustration via the only possible way the govt will understand this idiot refers to them as devients. God help us all. The dev ...
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  • Before & After 11 years ago

    Tell the demi gods who think they should kill innocent people to prove their point. They are getting ready to be permanently unemployed because the Cubans are on their way.

  • Kwaku 11 years ago

    So it means we are all mad?With John Mahama as the head of the mad men.No wonder the president hasn't got the wisdom in providing us with clean water and power.Let us look for a sane person to lead us.

  • Marquis 11 years ago

    I hope GMA members do not take offence at this and read meaning into something that is so obvious

  • Kwame 11 years ago

    The Doctors on strike have expressed discomfort over the coming of 350 Cuban doctors to help alleviate the situation.
    So they will prefer the government sit unconcerned whiles people continue to die over the non-payment of a ...
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  • ABOKYI 11 years ago

    GHANAIANS MUST SEE THE AGREEMENT AND COST INVOLVING THE CUBAN DOCTORS; IT COULD HAPPEN SOMEONE IS GOING TO TAKE SOME KICKBACK.

  • Mr Yaw Antobam 11 years ago

    Brilliant move. Bring in 350 Cuban docs in place of striking 3000 doctors. And because they are Cuban trained they would double as nurses and pharmacists. And because they are from Cuba they will work for free.

    In that ca ...
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  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    The unbearable national social economic hardship which has degenerated into national labour distress and work place unrest coupled with strikes has certainly affected the brains of the national Chief Psychiatrist whose analys ...
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  • Nima Old Soldier 11 years ago

    Can't believe this disgusting analysis is coming from the whole national Chief Psychiatrist or probably some responsible person.

    The statement here is like reading from the naughty NDC mosquito general secretary Asiedu Nke ...
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  • Kuuku Annan 11 years ago

    What trash from a learned person like this! I don't blame him for all we know this doctor's brain has been bought by the taxpayers money that has become a dirty curse in the hands of Mahama and his crooks. Dr. Akwesi Osei, yo ...
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  • Gandalf 11 years ago

    If what the chief psychiatrist is saying is anything to go by, then we are at large a nation under stress, including our doctors. And high stress leads to death. Any wonder the high level of heart problems and attendant death ...
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  • WARD GDX 11 years ago

    What a country.

    Those in charge at all institutions are all buffoons.

    Unbelievable. You can never make any progress with that level of pure stupidity.

    How can you attribute labor agitation based on economic demand ...
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  • Joe Turkey 11 years ago

    Strikes are a sign of INJUSTICE. If injustice leads to mental disorder, then the best efforts must be directed at injustice, not the mental disorder.

  • KORSHIE 11 years ago

    Thank you Doc.these NPP doctors are NOT MENTALLY SOUND. They are simply mad and murderers.

  • Yaw Agyei 11 years ago

    The Psychiatrist is right but the slogan or subject is inappropriate. Simply put, the entire Ghanaian society is worried from the furtive problems confronting it and it calls for state institutions to delve into them and addr ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their small children. "You all have obsessions," he observed.
    To the first mother he said, "You are obsessed with eating. You even named your ...
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  • By gosh 11 years ago

    That's a good one Prince Willy. I guess if the fourth mother was British, the boy would be called Willy instead of Dick.

  • kojo brenya 11 years ago

    The people of Ghana are under intense pressure due to the fact that mahama the novice president doesnt know anything that is why we are in such a mess.
    He is behaving like a spoilt child and only stealing in the name of gove ...
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  • boka 11 years ago

    where did you get your degree.?

  • Search for Truth 11 years ago

    If the the chief shrink comes out and says strikes are a sign of mental order (which is preposterous)imagine the sort of treatment he will be dishing out to his patients.God help us.Strikes signify progress, finally the peopl ...
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  • Prof. Atadwe Mess 11 years ago

    Did you say that negotiations are about completed for Cuban doctors to come to practice in Ghana?

    Upon their arrival, would they have received the necessary education, training and accreditation as stipulated and recognize ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 11 years ago

    Great Doc, just two days ago our Supreme court judges declared a constitutional instrument, which is an Act validated by a referendum from the people to be unconstitutional. A part of the constitution unconstitutional? The gr ...
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  • ISSA ABONGO 11 years ago

    THE CHIEF PSYCHIATRIC IS MENTALLY SICK. WHEN PEOPLE ARE DENIED THEIR DUE AND THEY FIGHT FOR IT, AFTER SEVERAL UNFULFULFILLED PROMISES TO PAY. IT IS THE NDC GOVERNMENT WHICH HAS MENTAL PROBLEMS FOR CHOPPING ALL THE NATION'S MO ...
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  • NII ARMAH 11 years ago

    BECAUSE IF YOU NEATLY DRESS WITH BEST PROFESSION WAIT TILL MESS START HAPPENING AROUND YOUR FAMILY THEN YOU REALIZE YOU ARE ALL SICK TOGETHER.

  • predator 11 years ago

    I BET YOU COMMUNICATION BTW CUBANS AND NURSES AND PATIENTS WILL BE TOUGH VERBALLY AND EVEN WRITTEN. THE NURSES WILL HAVE IT UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THESE CUBANS.GOD PLS LET THE DOSES AND DIAGNOSIS BE RIGHT. SLAVERY REINCARNATE .S ...
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  • predator 11 years ago

    HAVE THE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY OF THESE CUBANS BEEN CHECKED AND DO THEY MEET OUR STANDARDS. MEDICAL AND DENTAL COUNCIL SPEEAK OUT.LEST U BECOME DOUBLE SIDED IN ENFORCING YOUR MANDATE.I KNOW GHANAIANS WHO STUDIED IN RUSSIA AND ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    or they need to learn english

  • KK-K 11 years ago

    I am suprised that Dr. Osei can say a thing like this. Is this the first time that doctors ever emback on strike action in Ghana? So according to Kwesi Osei if anybody goes on strike then that means he/she or they are mentall ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Yes i agree with u. Ghanaian doctors are real mad. They shd be arrested and sent to the psychiatric hospital for evaluation .

    If doctors salaries are paid and they still embark on strike, though even Kofi Annan has pleade ...
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  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    You can't strike unless you're mad and you can't mad unless you're on strike. What a bogus theory.

  • Gawuga 11 years ago

    The govt is mad not the workers or Drs. Every decent govt has a way of solving these problems. NDC leader is a mad man hence the party.

  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    Drs Adusei and Siribour,

  • JH-New York City 11 years ago

    Drs Adusei and Siribour,from the bosses and one of your own !.

  • Nana Kweku 11 years ago

    If people expressing their constitutional rights is considered a mental problem then this man, Dr.Akwasi Osei too has a big mental problem for describing the these citizens as such. To the mentally challenged, everything i ...
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  • Kaduna Mafia 11 years ago

    government officials- MPs and Ministers are ripping off the country by awarding themselves large amounts of money as pay and allowances...and every one else is starving...that is the cause of the strike..if the presidents and ...
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  • DAN 11 years ago

    air traffic controllers, airline employees @ Lufthansa, lots of people in western world strike too..People that build cars & airplanes

  • AMA konadu 11 years ago

    I think this chief psychiatrist rather is the one who has a mental disorder. I think he cannot reason well or he has collected bribe. If he is really a psychiatrist, he should analyze properly. Politicians who are leaders are ...
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