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25 year old Charity Addo (left) with her helper 25 year old Ruth Kyeremanteng (right). Charity is receiving prayers at Edumfa Heavenly Ministry Spiritual Revival and Healing Centre in the hope she will be healed of her mental health problem. Ruth says: "I came here with epilepsy, but now I am stable. I???m am on medication. For some period now I have not been experienced this. When I became stable I decided to come here to take care of some of the people who came here. I would cook for them, give them baths, wash them things... I believe prayer and medicine is good, it is both good. Because when I came here I started receiving prayers before the medicine. Prayer and medicine, they are good... The medicine is for the physical symptoms for the epilepsy, but the prayers are spiritual." Edumfa Heavenly Ministry Spiritual Revival and Healing Centre in Edumfa, Cape Coast, Ghana. It is purportedly the largest, most established prayer camp in the country. Christians from all over Ghana (and other African countries) come to the camp in the hope of receiving, through the power of The Lord, such ???blessings??? as sickness cured, and end to infertility, a job, a ministerial appointment, travel outside the country, and even money. It has become particularly well known for healing people with mental health problems. For a population of nearly 26 million, Ghana has only 13 practising psychiatrists in public service and one registered private practitioner. There are only three psychiatric hospitals all of which are in the south of the coastal belt of country, with few options for care outside these facilities. WHO, whose statistics the Mental Health Authority regularly cites, says that only about 3 percent of the approximately 2.4 million Ghanaians suffering from mental disorders are receiving care at medical facilities, that leaves more than 2 million outside the purview of sanctioned treatment ??" a great many of whom, even the most conservative estimates would concede, are se
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2017-01-09
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