Memhrep CEO Raises Serious Concerns Over Family Neglect And Perspectives On Patients With Mental Health Disorders

Ghana, some persons living with mental illness end up on the street. Whereas most instances have resulted from family neglect, the paucity of effective social services to cater for neglected persons with mental health disorder persons is disturbing.

 

With this, the Chief Executive Officer CEO of Memhrep Ghana, a non – Government Organisation Mr. Adu Gyamfi has disclosed it’s plans to establish psychiatric hospital and Rehabilitation center with over five-hundred bed capacity in the Ashanti Region to help revamp and re-integrate Mental Healthcare delivery into the fabric of society.

 

 

The center when completed will open it doors to Recovered Patients/Clients and provide them all with skills plumbing, farming, masonry as well as other trades in order for them to be self – sufficient when they recover from a Mental condition in any local Psychiatric Hospital.

 

He explained that the general objective will be to support governments effort to integrate mental health into the general healthcare delivery system across the country.

He noted that Mental health is indeed critical because it impacts the thoughts, behaviours and emotions of individuals and as such has a direct impact on ones actions and inactions as well as one’s sense of judgement and self -worth.

 

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) about 13 percent of Ghanaians are mentally challenged.

A senior nurse at the Kumasi Children hospital Madam Augustina Kusi stated that, the issue has not really been given the needed attention over the years due to several factors such as misconception, the fear of stigmatization, ignorance, lack of training, spiritual connotations among others.

 

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