Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital owes suppliers GH¢2m - Adomonline.com

The Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital is suffocating from debts, and unless it gets help, it could soon be turning away the hundreds of patients who need attention.

Apart from that, the hospital, one of the three leading psychiatric facilities in the country which serves the Central, Western and Western North regions and even parts of Cote d’Ivoire, is also facing serious logistical constraints that are hampering effective healthcare delivery.

He said in the past the hospital had support from benevolent groups to feed patients, but that had also not been forthcoming.

He said per the staffing requirements for a psychiatric hospital, the hospital needed to have a minimum of five specialists, a maximum of nine and an average of seven.

Presently, the hospital had two specialists, in addition to the medical director and five medical officers, he said, noting that the two specialists were due for retirement next year.

because it ‘consumes’ a lot of fuel, he said, adding that with the state of the patients, that could be very risky and make everyone within the precincts of the hospital vulnerable,” the administrator said. 

Mr Kuusanoo expressed concerned that not much attention was being given to the psychiatric hospital, a situation that was unfortunately feeding into the issue of stigmatisation of mental health disease and patients and which even extended to workers at the facility.