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A 2-year project aimed at improving the disability inclusion programme in Ghana has ended.

Basic Needs Ghana, a non-governemental organisation, has held stakeholders' engagement on the proposed strategy for trauma informed approach with a call on partners to create awareness and the needed support for effective implementation. Trauma informed approach seeks to help organisations build processes and systems that focus on patient and employee…

Ghana’s government has taken inadequate steps to end the chaining and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions – psychosocial disabilities – in faith-based and traditional healing centers despite a 2017 ban on such treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.

Ghana: Chaining people with mental health conditions persists - The Maravi Post

Dr Joel Agorinya, a psychiatrist at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, has advised the public to normalise seeking help for mental health issues. He said there were a lot of people walking on the streets who had mental health issues but were shy to seek help even though there is help.…