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3 Million Ghanaians have mental disorder — Minister of Health

Graphic Online Date: Jul - 10 - 2021 , 08:00 BY: Nana Konadu Agyeman 30.5k Shares 705 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that 10 per cent of the population of Ghana, representing 10 out of every 100 persons, have one form of mental disorder or another. “Thus, with our estimated 31 million population in Ghana, we have an estimated 3.1 million with mental disorders,” the Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, stated when he addressed Parliament last Wednesday. He was responding to a question by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sege, Mr Christian Corletey Otuteye, on what the government was doing to address the plight of persons with mental health problems and developments on the health front.

3 1 Million Ghanaians Suffering Mental Disorders, 16,000 Cases Severe

  An estimated 3.1 million Ghanaians, representing 10 per cent of the estimated 31 million population of Ghana, have one form of mental disorder or the other, with 16,000 having severe cases. Sourcing the data from the WHO and the Ghana Mental Health Authority, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Health Minister, told Parliament that: “It is clearly established that 41 percent of Ghanaians have psychological distress - mild, moderate, severe - and this costs the nation 7 percent GDP loss” He was responding to a question by Mr Christian Corletey Otuteye, the MP for Sege, who wanted to know what plans the Ministry had to address the plight of persons with mental health problems in Ghana.

41% of Ghanaians have psychological distress — Minister

41% of Ghanaians have psychological distress — Minister
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