(Abuja) – Ghana’s government has taken inadequate steps to end the chaining and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions – psychosocial disabilities ...

(Accra) – Ghana’s 2017 ban on shackling people with psychosocial disabilities – or mental health conditions – has not halted the practice, Human Rights Watch said today. The government has ...

The Mental Health Society of Ghana has urged traditional ... We shouldn’t flog them; we shouldn’t chain them and treat them as if they are not humans. It is a very bad practice”, he said.

Ghana must take “immediate steps” to end the shackling and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health ... legislation against it. “Chaining people with psychosocial ...

The Mental Health Authority has kick-started what it calls ‘a ban on chaining and shackles’ of mentally ill patients who are abused on a daily basis in traditional and faith-based healers.

A Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta after getting to know that patients in a mental asylum in Badayun district of Uttar Pradesh are kept in chains. A Bench of ...