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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central region faces closure due to lack of funds, food and some medical supplies to run the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital has had its account garnisheed by court after a supply took it to court for nonpayment of debt.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, confirmed this in an interview on Adom FM\u2019s morning show, <strong>Dwaso Nsem <\/strong>Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said companies that supply the hospital with detergents, gloves, staple food and others have also halted their supplies to the hospital as it has not been able to pay a debt of about GH\u00a22 million owed them.<\/p>\n<p>The situation, Dr. Akwasi Osei said it not peculiar to just Ankaful as Accra and Pantang Psychiatric are facing the same challenge.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that, management of Ankaful Psychiatric hospital has threatened to release all inmates on the streets due to lack of funds for their upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lack of food and other items is affecting health delivery at Ankaful, Pantang and Accra. This is very worrying\u201d he bemoaned.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Osei appealed to government to release funds to the Psychiatric hospitals for effecting health delivery. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Play attached audio for more<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p> <!-- [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"oyMmFkIX0ic\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minority tells gov\u2019t to open land borders for people and goods \u2013 Adom TV News (15-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyMmFkIX0ic?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu The Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central region faces closure due to lack of funds, food and some medical supplies to run the hospital. The hospital has had its account garnisheed by court after a supply took it to court for nonpayment of debt. Head of the Mental Health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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