The Ankafo Psychiatric hospital in the central region is threatening to release over hundred patients due to a lack of funds to run the facility
The hospital is currently indebted to various suppliers of food and other items to the tune of over GHC 3 million.
The Acting Clinical Coordinator of the hospital, Dr Emefa Dzede made this known over the weekend.
She said: “Even the little money that they’ve promised to give us, we’ve not even gotten our hands on it yet, so we are having difficulty, we owe suppliers for a backlog of years and they are not willing to supply us again”
She added that they had to struggle to get money to provide meals for the inmates recently, “Looking in the near future, maybe we will have to let all the patients go home because we can’t afford to feed them, we can’t afford to care of them”.
Source: Daily Graphic
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority. |
Ghana has totally failed to deliver adequate Behavioral Healthcare Services to its citizens. But for the Grace of God, anyone of us could be at Ankafu Psychiatric Hospital. We ought to have One-Region One-Behaviioral Health Hospital. There ought to be at least three Universities of Psychology, Counseling, and General Behavioral Health in Ghana. There are more citizens with Mental Health challenges than those with medical problems in Ghana. Please prioritize.
Release them, but do it at Johm mahama's hometown.
Shall we stop calling people suffering from mental health 'inmates' please. they are not prisoners!!!! they are patients in hospitals.