Ghana - chorzy umysłowo - Noor Images

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Ghana - chorzy umysłowo - Noor Images
19 year old Hannah Otoo (left) with her 42 year old mother Mary Kranteng (right). Hannah is receiving prayers at Edumfa Heavenly Ministry Spiritual Revival and Healing Centre in the hope she will be healed of her mental health problem. Mary, talking about her daughter says: ??sI want my daughter to be well and to go to school.??? Psychiatric nurse, Steven Asante, who visited Hannah says: ??sHannah is really having a form of mental illness which is psychotic disorder. She has not got yet Schizophrenia. She has symptoms - hallucinations and illusions. So right now she is at a prayer camp and we are hoping for the best. But as a psychiatric nurse, through the work she doesn???t take any anti psychotic medication her condition will become worse in the near days ahead of us. If she is on medicine, if she takes psychotic medication the issue that is bothering her right now. If she takes the medicine she becomes calm, we can talk to her about her issues.??? 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 f
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2017-01-09
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