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A healthy population is a wealthy population. Mental health is total health. It is a right and a goal and it is, indeed, central to the socioeconomic development of a country. The first Mental Health Policy for Ghana was developed in 1994 revised in 1996 and since then significant changes have occurred in the global, national and health sector landscapes which have impacted on mental health. It is six years since the Mental Health Act, 2012 (Act 846) was enacted culminating in the establishment of the Mental Health Authority (MHA). A lot of progress has since been made in the delivery of mental health services in the country though many challenges persist. It is within this context that this new policy has been developed. The policy views mental health as an important indicator of the health status of the people living in the country. While focusing on community care, the policy sets out the new direction for the general improvement in the quality of mental health of the citizenry. In addition it maps out the institutional framework for its implementation. The policy details a programme to complete the establishment of governance structures like the Mental Health Tribunal, Visiting Committees, District Mental Health Subcommittees and appointment of District Mental Health Coordinators. With the establishment of these structures the Authority can fully implement the provisions of the Mental Health Act including ensuring human rights compliance. 
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SERVICES

Government is committed to funding mental health services in the country to ease the financial

burden of the Authority and empower it to embark on its numerous projects to improve on the mental

health of Ghanaians to the level of an advanced middle income country. 

Health promotion

The range of services provided in Ghana include promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. Mental health services in Ghana are delivered by the public and private sectors, including allopathic and alternative practices like the traditional and faith-based healing. The public sector services include the psychiatric, teaching and quasi-government hospitals, regional, district and faith-owned  health facilities. 

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community care

Human rights abuses have been a blot on mental health care in the country. Human Rights Watch, an international NGO in human rights, devoted its whole annual report of 2012 on human rights situation in Ghana and described Ghana‟s mental health as „a death sentence.‟32 Since 10 October, 2017, on World Mental Health Day the MHA has formally banned chaining and shackling of persons with mental illnesses.

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research

Considerable progress has been made to integrate mental health data into routine health service data. This will provide more reliable information for mental health services planning and delivery. Routine mental health data is captured on the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS). In collaboration with the GHS, the MHA has worked out a set of indicators to evaluate mental health services as part of the holistic assessment of the health sector. Previously aggregated mental health data has been disaggregated thus increasing the mental health conditions routinely reported from four (4) to thirty (30)

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planning & evaluation

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human resource

The human resource production of mental health staff has been improving consistently over the years. Until recently there were 600 Registered Mental Nurses (RMN). Since then, two thousand, one hundred (2100) of this category of nurses (RMN) have been added to the mental health workforce in the last five years. MHA has facilitated the acquisition of financial clearance for the recruitment of occupational therapists, clinical psychologists and pharmacists. In-service training has been organized for front line community mental health workers, general doctors and physician assistants though a large gap exists

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technical directorate

Some progress has been made in setting up the governance structures following the passage of the Mental Health Act. The MHA is governed by an eleven-member Board appointed by the President of the Republic of Ghana. A Chief Executive (CE) has been appointed who is part of the Inter-Agency Leadership Committee (IALC) of the MoH. This Committee meets quarterly and coordinates all activities of agencies within the Ministry. In addition, the MHA has a Department of Collaboration in its organogram that will be coordinating all relevant agencies including the private sector at the national level and other levels.

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Our Vision

Ensure  a mentally healthy population for national development.

Core Values
  • Team Work
  • Empathy
  • Compassion
  • Professionalism
  • Equality
  • Respect and Dignity
Our Mission

To promote mental health, prevent mental illness and provide quality, integrated, culturally appropriate and accessible community-oriented mental health car

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Prof. Akwasi Osei

Ex-Chief Executive Officer MHA

It was co-authored by the immediate past and the present Chief Psychiatrists, Professor Joseph Asare and Dr Akwasi Osei, respectively, together with a British lecturer in Ghana, Mr Mark Roberts.

The 378-page book, titled: “The History of Mental Health Care in Ghana”, was launched at an event supported by the Psychiatry Association of Ghana, the Mental Health Authority (MHA), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in Accra last Friday.

In a chronological order, the book outlines the journey of mental health care in Ghana, its challenges, successes to date and some lessons that can help improve care in the sector.Besides, it contains a review of psychiatry in the global sphere, Africa and Ghana; the beginnings of the three public psychiatric hospitals in the country the origin of psychiatric nursing and community psychiatry and psychiatry education in the country.

The book recognises the contribution of the Daily Graphic to public education on mental health and mentions three of its journalists — Ms Doreen Hammond, Mrs Doreen Andoh and Ms Caroline Boateng — for their in-depth and consistent reportage on the subject area.

It also seeks to honour the heroes and heroines of mental health care in the country.

Underscoring the critical need for such a journal, Dr Osei, who is the Chief Executive of the MHA, said Ghana’s mental healthcare sector was gaining international prominence and it was clear that people around the world would be researching into its beginnings and progress for various reasons.However, there is very little documented historical information.

The few materials available tend to contradict themselves, hence the need to invest in coordinating and harmonising all available information in order to highlight the true picture of mental health care in the country,” he said.

He said the authors individually conceived the idea to write such a book many years ago, and in 2012, the first concrete steps to write it collectively began.

Resourceful

Dr Osei said the book was very resourceful because the information put together in it was from a wide variety of sources, such as the British archives.