Former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has said the Mahama administration failed to commit adequate financial resources to mental health issues in the country.
According to him, the past administration spent huge sums of money on campaign activities ahead of the 2016 elections while neglecting mental health.
Speaking at the launch of Friends of Mental Health in Accra on Monday, October 23 Prof Addai expressed worry over the country’s inability to effectively assist persons with mental disorders.
He said: “We have forgotten that the brain is part of the body and every part of the body sometimes gets sick, and yet, when you get sick in the brain we don’t consider you as sick, it is either you are a witch or bewitched.
“Whenever I see a mentally sick person walking on the streets, sometimes totally naked, I don’t know whom we are indicting, but it is me and you, from the President to the young person.”
He added: “I couldn’t believe that in 2016, not a pesewa of government budget was dedicated to mental health. That was a year that literally millions were spent legitimately or bribing people to vote and not a pesewa in helping mentally sick people.
“I believe that there are many things that have to be done, we need roads, we need schools, we need factories and all of them, but nothing will define our humanity as Ghanaians than what we do.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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Mahama's children were schooling outside the country presumably on GoG scholarship when school feeding, Northern Scholarship (enjoyed solely by people where he comes from), NHIS, District Assembly Common fund etc. were all in arrears for years. What is more he superintendent over the cancellation of nursing and teacher training allowance, massive and unprecedented corruption. But ndc communicators are now shouting their voices hoarse and shamelessly telling us that children of Safo Marfo and some NPP "big men" are employed in state institution so it is a crime unheard of. Those children are not Ghanaians to be employed by the state. ndc logic strangely makes sense only to themselves.
Was Prof. Adei expecting the NDC to cure his illness... A person whom intended to cross a vice presidential convoy thus to breaching security is obviously a psychotic. Unfortunately for him, the current government's budget offers no money for his case.
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This DEAD ***barred word*** is still making his ***barred word*** noise again?Just look at his unkempt face
Some one should tell this vegetable to ***barred word***.
see, lets be honest here, this prof doesnt carry any weight in ghana here. he doesnt scare me a bit with his uterances cos they are not solid. today he is talking about the vice president occupying two lanes. is it a crime for the vice president to occupy two lanes? then he talks about the number of cars, does he want all the soldiers guarding the vice president to be packed in one toyota v8 landcruiser??? lets be realistic here. prof you have to tell us things that can shake us and not some langa langa arguments. dont force yourself to be acknowledged, it is earned.