{"id":253056,"date":"2016-09-28T19:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253056"},"modified":"2016-09-28T19:28:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:28:27","slug":"accra-psychiatric-hospital-shuts-down-opd-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/accra-psychiatric-hospital-shuts-down-opd-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Accra Psychiatric Hospital shuts down OPD [Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patients who visited the Accra Psychiatric Hospital on Wednesday, September 28, were turned away due to the closure\u00a0of its Out Patient Department (OPD) to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital\u2019s administrators say they were compelled to take\u00a0the\u00a0decision because their financial challenges have worsened over time.<\/p>\n<p>Suppliers of the mental health facility have withdraw\u00a0the supply of essential medical products over unpaid debts.<\/p>\n<p>Government has on many occasions starved the facility of the money needed to run it.<\/p>\n<p>Although these challenges are severely affecting mental healthcare services, the incumbent administration in it&#8217;s 2016 manifesto, promised to build two more psychiatric hospitals when voted into office.<\/p>\n<p>The Accra Psychiatric Hospital is not the only one under-resourced, as managers of the Pantang Hospital have similar concerns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Caleb Kudah visited the Accra Psychiatric Hospital on Wednesday and filed this report.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/285150355&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients who visited the Accra Psychiatric Hospital on Wednesday, September 28, were turned away due to the closure\u00a0of its Out Patient Department (OPD) to the public. 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