The programme Coordinator of
Gub-Katimali Society in the Northern region has bemoaned the rate at which
persons with mental illness and epilepsy are being neglected in the society.
Sheikh Yakubu Abdul- Kareem said the neglect of mental ill patients includes
government since they have no budget allocation and infrastructure from
government. According to the programme Coordinator of the Gub-Katimali Society,
the neglect of mental ill patients is due to their low contribution to the
socio-economic development of the country.
Sheikh Yakubu Abdul- Kareem said this during a sensitization forum for
stakeholders including the various security agencies on the implementation of
the mental health bill in the northern region. In 2012, the mental health Act received
Presidential assent and became a law after being passed by the Parliament of
the republic of Ghana. It thus ushered in a new dawn of hope for people with
mental illness and introduce a new ideal to which mental health service or care
givers were aspire to. Despite the law in place metal ill patients still
undergoes all kind of neglect, stigmatization and brutalities from families,
community members as well as traditional healers which however needs much to be
desired. Sheikh Abdul- Kareem said Gub-Katimali Society and its partners
Basic-Needs targeted the security agencies because they protect laws in the
country hence the need for them to be sensitize on the new laws on Mental
Health.
Source:Ramatu Alhassan
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