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The Mental Health Society of Ghana has petition the Electoral Commission to allow cured mentally challenged patients to participate in electoral processes.
The Head of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Akwasi Osei stated that there are about 600 cured patients at the hospital but due to family neglect they have been stranded at the hospital.
He explains that those cured patients at the hospital should be allowed to vote because the doctors have confirmed them fit.
Dr Osei says although the EC were not ready to allow such a move, they believe with time the EC will study it and give them a feedback.
Meanwhile, a legal expert Lawyer Osei Kwadwo believes that constitutionally the cured mentally challenged patients should be allowed to vote.
He said so far as they are declared fit by the doctors, then they should be allowed to vote.
