Ghana must stop chaining mental health patients: HRW ...Middle East

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ACCRA: Ghana should take immediate steps to end the shackling of people with real or perceived mental health conditions, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, a practice that continues despite legislation against it.The global rights body said that 10 years after the adoption of a Mental Health Act establishing that people with psychosocial disabilities should not be subjected to inhumane treatment, the government was not doing enough to ensure implementation.“Chaining people with psychosocial disabilities in prayer camps and healing centres is a form of torture,“ said Shantha Rau Barriga, disability rights director at HRW.Researchers visited five prayer camps and traditional healing centers in

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