GMA URGE GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH MEDICAL CLINICS NATION-WIDE REDUCE MEDICALLY CHALLENGE OF THE STREETS

The Assistant General Secretary of the Ghana medical association , Dr Frank Serebour has urge the government to establish psychiatric hospitals in all the regions to reduce the number of mentally ill persons on the streets.
He explains that due to the low number of psychiatric hospitals in the country there are the many mentally challenged persons rooming on the streets.
He also urge the government to train more health persons in the sector to minimize the work load at the hospital.
He notes that we should not only leave the responsibilities to government but to also citizens and family members of the mentally challenge needs to embrace their wards if they are cured from illness.
He says people should desist from abusing and frustrating family members whose ward is suffering from mental illness because just like any illness everybody would be affected.


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