General News of Friday, 23 June 2017Source: Graphic.com.ghMHA to develop operational guidelines for traditional, faith based healersDr. Akwasi Osei, CEO of Mental Health AuthorityThe Mental Health Authority (MHA) has initiated moves aimed at ensuring that traditional and faith based healers operate within a framework that is beneficial to mental patients. There are concerns that the rights of mental patients are sometimes trampled upon by some traditional and faith based healers at their various centres. Consequently, the MHA has initiated stakeholder meetings to develop guidelines for the operation of traditional and faith based healers in mental health. Again, the religious nature of many Ghanaians makes them always wanting to take mental patients to traditional and faith based healing centres. On Friday, one of such stakeholder meetings for the development of guidelines for operation of traditional and faith based healers in mental health was organised in Accra.

Source: GhanaWeb June 23, 2017 18:11 UTC