Ghana: Dealing with the Mentally Ill | Global 3000

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Ghana: Dealing with the Mentally Ill | Global 3000


In many places in Africa, people with mental illnesses are excluded from society. Tens of thousands of people suffering from dementia, schizophrenia or depression are ostracized by their families. They’re shut away and kept in chains under appalling conditions in camps that call themselves prayer centers. With funding from the European…

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  1. Putting shackles on these human beings is unbelievably heinous…These "prayer camps" should be abolished!!! That man blowing his fowl breath in that woman's face, how disgusting, no wonder she passed out…AFRICANS WAKE UP, GOD WORKS THROUGH MEDICINE AND DOCTORS IN ADDITION TO PRAYER!!!