MIND FREEDOM (GH) STORMS NIMA

By: Evans Okai
Mind Freedom {GH} ,the popular Accra Based Mental Health NGO last week stormed Nima Social Centre with a very sensative and remarkable dramer under the theme"women's reproductive health and mental health - what you need to know"
Mr. Dan Tailor the General Secretary told health digest news that, the main objective for organizing the programme was to sensitize women and the general public on how women's reproductive health affects their mental health status.

Speaking at the programme was Mrs. Diana Baah Odoom a Medical Doctor of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, told Health Digest in an interview that, men who stay by their wives at the labor ward treat their wives and kids with care more than those who stay outside for their wives to deliver their babies : and this is because they see the pain their wives go through at the labor ward before delivering.

She said, if this system is encouraged ,it can check the system whereby men impregnate their wives without planing and caring for them, and will also give moral and psychological support to the woman in labor.

Dr. Diana said, formally Ghanaians weren't practicing it. And the reason was that, the laid down infrastructure in the various local hospitals were not favorable to the system. but now due to the introduction of sophisticated hospital facilities into the system, husbands have started going to the labor wards with their wives.

she said every hospital in Ghana can practice this system because the labor ward contains only the woman in labor and the midwives so, the husband can join them in.

she also continued that Depression is another factor which causes mental ailments an women, especially those who faces financial difficulties in their marriage.

She noted that, some of the mental cases recorded amongst married women and the aged are as results of poor treatments , inadequate care and support which they receive from their families.

The Medical Doctor advised that,expectant mothers and the aged should be given the necessary care and support which will go a long way to reduce mental cases recorded in the country.