{"id":1220586,"date":"2022-10-10T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/10\/prioritise-investment-in-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T16:16:06","slug":"prioritise-investment-in-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/10\/prioritise-investment-in-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Prioritise investment in mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"52\">\n<p>The Mental Health Alliance has called on government to prioritise investment in mental health.<\/p>\n<p>They believe this will enable the Mental Health Authority to deliver on its mandate, to help every Ghanaian enjoy mental health and well-being to the optimum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance says it considers the long delays in implementing key provisions of the Mental Health Act 2012, Act 846 to enhance the rights of persons with conditions as troubling.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mental Health Alliance (MHA) made the call ahead of the World Mental Health Day Celebration, which is observed on the 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of October every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ghana will join the rest of the world to celebrate the 2022 World Mental Health Day on the theme, \u2018Making mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Mental Health Alliance in a statement expressed concerns that persons with mental health conditions in Ghana were experiencing many challenges in addition to their mental ill-health.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s World Mental Health Day celebration provides us with a unique opportunity to revisit our mental health policy, and Mental Health Act 2012, Act 846 which provides equal opportunity for everyone to enjoy mental health and to exercise their human rights.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MHA called on the board of Authority to establish the mental health review tribunal, establish regional visiting committees and prioritise adding mental health to the National Health Insurance Scheme\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance said that investment in mental health was low, ranging between 0.5 to 1.9 per cent particularly, in low-and middle-income countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur beloved country Ghana spends just 1.4% of total government health expenditure on mental health, and so the burden of mental ill health continues to grow, with serious consequences for the country\u2019s economic and social development, and the health and wellbeing of its people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis situation has experienced very little improvement,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"KvmXzEjXb-E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sustainability Project: Fanmilk-Danone launch 7 million euro world-class green factory (7-10-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KvmXzEjXb-E?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mental Health Alliance has called on government to prioritise investment in mental health. They believe this will enable the Mental Health Authority to deliver on its mandate, to help every Ghanaian enjoy mental health and well-being to the optimum.\u00a0 The Alliance says it considers the long delays in implementing key provisions of the Mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220586","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=1220586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}