


A 500-bed capacity mental health rehabilitation centre is set to be established at Asante Juaben in the Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti region.
The project, which is to be established by Mensah Mental Health Rehabilitation (Memhrep), an NGO, is to help cater for the health needs of the growing numbers of individuals being diagnosed with mental health problems in the country.
Memhrep’s main aim is to improve and maintain the well-being of persons with mental health problems by giving them quality health care, especially the most underprivileged in society.
The rehabilitation center after completion would accommodate and treat people with mental health needs and provide resettlement skills (vocational training) before reintegration.
It would consist of 500 capacity cluster beds, conference center, re-settlement center (workshops and apprentices training), a mosque, a Church, a clinic, and waste management plant.
Mr Adu Gyamfi, Founder and Director of the organization, made this known at a press conference held in Kumasi over the weekend.
The conference was under the theme “End to neglecting and homelessness of mental health patients”
Mr Adu Gyamfi said there had been growing concerns over the continued deterioration and deplorable conditions in which mental health patients found themselves in Ghana.
According to him, mental health patients mostly were exposed to the vagaries of the weather, poor sanitation and without necessities such as food, water, and shelter.
For this reason, he said, it was important to build an ultra-modern rehabilitation edifice to help government’s efforts at providing proper shelter and vocation for mental patients.
He said, some challenges faced by mental patients were associated with homelessness, discrimination, stigmatization and sometimes victims of road accidents.
Mental patients have suffered enough in Ghana and therefore, the need to give them adequate attention and fair treatment”, he added.
He said the cause of his mental disorder was due to family members’ ungratefulness and mismanagement of his wealth when he was away in Britain years back.
This is what Mr Adu Gyamfi CEO Mensah Mental Health Rehabilitation (Memhrep) had to say
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Mrs Esther Appraku, Director of Social Welfare at the Kumasi Metropolis Assembly (KMA), who spoke to the media said Mensah Mental Health Rehabilitation (Memhrep) over the years partner with government to deal with mental health illness in the country.
She also advised individuals who chained mentally health patients to treat at prayer camps, to desist from that and rather, send them to hospital.
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