No single psychiatrist at prisons

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• Yaa Na 11 years ago

  That is why you wouldn't find any Psychiatrist in the Prisons. Simply because all the mad prisoners have escaped hiding in Parliament pretending to be politicians when in reality 90% of them should be in jail being treated fo ...
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  That is why you wouldn't find any Psychiatrist in the Prisons. Simply because all the mad prisoners have escaped hiding in Parliament pretending to be politicians when in reality 90% of them should be in jail being treated for their psychiatric illness and other criminal activities!

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• princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

  Mr.S an MP went to a psychiatrist. "Doc," he said, "I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. "you gott ...
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  Mr.S an MP went to a psychiatrist. "Doc," he said, "I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. "you gotta help me, I'm going crazy!"
  "Just put yourself in my care for two years," said the doctor. "Come to me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears."
  "How much do you charge?"
  "A hundred dollars per visit."
  "I'll sleep on it," said Mr.S.
  Six months later the doctor met Mr.S. on the street. "Why didn't you ever come to see me again?" asked the psychiatrist.
  "At a hundred buck's a visit? A bartender cured me for only ten dollars."
  "Really, How?"
  "He told me to cut the legs off the bed!"

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• GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 11 years ago

  MAKE ATAA AYI THE PSYCHIATRIST!
  
  WRITE A BOOK/MOVIE...CAGA: CHARACTER GOES THRU EACH SCENARIO, DEMONSTRATION. SHOW HOW HE LOSES.
  ANATOMY OF A STOOPID GHANAIAN!
  A BETTER, PROSPEROUS, MODERN, FORWARD THINKING GH STARTS WITH ...
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  MAKE ATAA AYI THE PSYCHIATRIST!
  
  WRITE A BOOK/MOVIE...CAGA: CHARACTER GOES THRU EACH SCENARIO, DEMONSTRATION. SHOW HOW HE LOSES.
  ANATOMY OF A STOOPID GHANAIAN!
  A BETTER, PROSPEROUS, MODERN, FORWARD THINKING GH STARTS WITH YOU!
  IF YOUR LIVING SITUATION IS GOOD, THEN GHANA WILL BE GOOD.
  IF YOU ARE CONFUSED, DISORIENTED, UNORGANIZED, FEARFUL, IN DEBT/DEATH,
  THEN GH WILL BE THE SAME.
  TRAITS OF A DUMB GHANAIAN
  1.LEAPS BEFORE HE LOOKS, THEN SAYS.."MEWUOO! AWURADE BUA ME OOOOO
  2.HAS NO GRATITUDE. FASTFOOD BRAIN. EASILY FORGETS:
  They are disingenuous. Look around you. I mean you, and the one next to you.
  The average Ghanaian has a very short memory; too short to remember to reward righteous politicians or punish unrighteous politicians. Blame him/her not.
  It’s neither her duty nor her fault that she can’t remember politicians’ political records. For peace sake, she has job responsibilities, family obligations, and personal life to take care of.
  Hence, it’s no surprise if she can’t follow what her elected officials’ promised her or what they have actually achieved while in office.
  3.HAS NO FORESIGHT. FAST FOOD MENTALITY
  4.LACKS MENTALITY TO PLAN LONGTERM
  5.COMPOUND INTEREST IS A MYTH
  6.BELIEVES AND PLACES FAITH IN INNATE, ILLOGICAL IDEALS LIKE JUJU, FAMA NYAME, 3B3Y3 YIE WAI.
  7.DESPISES RESEARCH
  8.PREFERS TO ACT, SPEAK, AND REASON EMOTIONALLY, THAN LOGICALLY
  9.COMFORTABLE WITH MEDIOCRITY
  10.DESPISES CONTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
  11.FUN OR PARTY TODAY, SUFFER LATER
  12.INSTANT GRATIFICATION
  13.PREFERS TO ARGUE, DEBATE INCESSANTLY WITHOUT REAL, CONCRETE, COLD HARD FACTS!
  14.COMFORTABLE WITH MEDIOCRITY
  15.INCAPABLE/LOOKS DOWN ON DOING CHARITABLE DUTIES
  16.LACKS INITIATIVE
  17.PREFERS TO STEAL, LIE, CHEAT, TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS
  18.SUCCESS DOE NOT = HARDWORK AND CAREFUL PLANNING
  19.HATES TO ASK
  20.KNOW IT ALL
  21.ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THE EASY ROUTE, SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS
  22.HEY SMALLBOY!....BRA HA!
  23.BELIEVES SUCCESS IS ATTRIBUTED TO AWURADE NSHIRA(GOD'S BLESSING) AND NOT HARDWORK, DISCIPLINE AND CAREFUL PLANNING.
  24.DOES NOT BELIEVE IN LEAVING ASSETS/PROPERTY FOR THEIR OFFSPRING.
  25. ALWAYS PROCRASTINATING...M3Y3, M3Y3..AH, MESE M3Y3. MASSA, IF YOU R GOING TO PRESSURE ME THEN MENY3 BIOM!
  26.SPENDS LOADS OF MONEY ON THE LOTTERY. WITHOUT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE REALITIES OF PROBABILITY.
  27.BELIEVES IN LUCK, OVER HARDWORK AND DISCIPLINE.
  28.BUILDS ASSETS, SKYSCRAPPERS, STADIUMS IN THEIR MOUTHS AND BELLYS!
  29.WEAVE WEARING, MAKE UP PADDED BLACK FEMALE FACES...GTFOH!(GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE)
  HAPPY, HEALTHY N A WEALTHY 2014 FOLKS!
  OBENG CONSULTS
  tuxman06@yahoo.ca
  skype: CHEWBACCA (@NIAGARA FALLS)
  JOHN 10:10
  THE TRUTH WILL MAKE U RICH!

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• Shabi 11 years ago

  Prince willy I really do think that Ghanaweb should recompense you for your humorous and witty interjections.
  
  Im sure if all we readers put it to some kind of democratic vote you could easily be earning upwards of $500 a w ...
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  Prince willy I really do think that Ghanaweb should recompense you for your humorous and witty interjections.
  
  Im sure if all we readers put it to some kind of democratic vote you could easily be earning upwards of $500 a week from Ghanaweb for doing for them, what they should have been doing for their readers.
  
  Anyway remuneration or no remuneration, keep it up, you are doing a great job.

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• TONY 11 years ago

  THIS IS TOO DISGRACEFUL. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS P/NDC GOVERNMENT. AND WHERE ARE THE HUMAN RIGHT LAWS? YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GHANA

  THIS IS TOO DISGRACEFUL. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS P/NDC GOVERNMENT. AND WHERE ARE THE HUMAN RIGHT LAWS? YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GHANA

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• Shabi 11 years ago

  Yaa Naa, your comment is one of the most apt that have I have come across on Ghanaweb.
  
  I do sometimes get the impression that all those criminally insane characters in govt and in Parliament should actually be in the lunat ...
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  Yaa Naa, your comment is one of the most apt that have I have come across on Ghanaweb.
  
  I do sometimes get the impression that all those criminally insane characters in govt and in Parliament should actually be in the lunatic asylum.

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• gretchy 11 years ago

  Unfortunely its all true Bro!!.How many days does the president and his merry makers sit down in parliament and go over issues that need done urgently or what ever.Western countryys sit every day arguing and passing ammendmen ...
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  Unfortunely its all true Bro!!.How many days does the president and his merry makers sit down in parliament and go over issues that need done urgently or what ever.Western countryys sit every day arguing and passing ammendments.at least things are getting done where in ghana hahahaha everyone wwants to go abroad for xmas geeze happy xmas those who are left behind and starve

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• Kofi Atta 11 years ago

  They r all gone to take care of Alhaji Nasiru Mohamed who is saying JJ is corrupt free.....Alhaji got 100ghca from Jj to buy food so that he could talk that nonsense......

  They r all gone to take care of Alhaji Nasiru Mohamed who is saying JJ is corrupt free.....Alhaji got 100ghca from Jj to buy food so that he could talk that nonsense......

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• OBOMENG ANANE, MODENA ITALY 11 years ago

  IF IT JEDGEMENT DEBT, THE GORVERNMENT WOULD HAS PAY ALREADY. BUT LOOK PRISON SERVICE NEED HELP BUT IT HAS FALL IN DEAF EARS. BIG CARS, HOUSES AND SMALL GIRLS ARE WHAT THE AUTHORITY IS LOOKING FOR. BIG SALARY TRAVELLING AND H ...
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  IF IT JEDGEMENT DEBT, THE GORVERNMENT WOULD HAS PAY ALREADY. BUT LOOK PRISON SERVICE NEED HELP BUT IT HAS FALL IN DEAF EARS. BIG CARS, HOUSES AND SMALL GIRLS ARE WHAT THE AUTHORITY IS LOOKING FOR. BIG SALARY TRAVELLING AND HOUSES ARE WHAT POLITICIANS WILLING. BOTH NPP AND NDC ARE KILLING GHANAIANS. BUT GOD WILL ONE DAY DELIVER ISRAEL FROM THE HANDS OF EGYPT. YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERS AND WHATEVER GOES UP WILL COME DOWN.

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• princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

  After hearing that one of the patients in a mental hospital had
  saved another from a suicide attempt by pulling him out of a
  bathtub, the director reviewed the rescuer's file and called him
  into his office.
  "Mr. James, yo ...
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  After hearing that one of the patients in a mental hospital had
  saved another from a suicide attempt by pulling him out of a
  bathtub, the director reviewed the rescuer's file and called him
  into his office.
  "Mr. James, your records and your heroic behavior indicate that
  you're ready to go home. I'm only sorry that the man you saved
  later killed himself with a rope around the neck."
  "Oh, he didn't kill himself," Mr. James replied. "I hung him up
  to dry."

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• Baba Seidu 11 years ago

  ..."as well as the establishment of Prisons Hospitals in every region".
  Why Prison hospital? We should rather build on the existing structures and or add new health facilities to the benefit of all. I agree that in order to ...
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  ..."as well as the establishment of Prisons Hospitals in every region".
  Why Prison hospital? We should rather build on the existing structures and or add new health facilities to the benefit of all. I agree that in order to reduce recidivism, we need to seriously engage professionals into our penal system to help in the reformation process otherwise we are only churning out hard core criminals to the detriment of the larger society. So Prison hospitals? I don't think so!!!

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• Koffi Parker 11 years ago

  These guys needs help,can't afford three 3 square meals and shower, let alone Prison hospital, its causing serious medical and nutrition issues,who needs a psychiatrist when you have a good health.
  This is where corruption ...
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  These guys needs help,can't afford three 3 square meals and shower, let alone Prison hospital, its causing serious medical and nutrition issues,who needs a psychiatrist when you have a good health.
  This is where corruption starts,new prison hospital,nurses,doctors,counsellors,clinical,indeed they need the "PROFESSIONALS"to ensure their fat income,re-offending means there is no proper rehabilitation process in place. Prison system creates job for the "elites" in the western world,they are not interested in your wellbeing as an inmate,your misery ensures their paycheck. liars instead of lawyers

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• KOFI 11 years ago

  VERY VERY UNREALISTIC DEMAND,TEN HOSPITALS FOR PRISONERS AND HOW MANY HOSPITALS FOR THE REST OF GHANAIANS? PRISON SERVICE YOU NEED LEADERSHIP.

  VERY VERY UNREALISTIC DEMAND,TEN HOSPITALS FOR PRISONERS AND HOW MANY HOSPITALS FOR THE REST OF GHANAIANS? PRISON SERVICE YOU NEED LEADERSHIP.

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• concern ghanian 11 years ago

  IS GHANA GOING BACK OR FORWARD?

  IS GHANA GOING BACK OR FORWARD?

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• Koffi Parker 11 years ago

  Is not going or getting anywhere no one cares.

  Is not going or getting anywhere no one cares.

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• WIAFE 11 years ago

  The NDC government sent two prominent lawyers in the service (Richard Asiedu and Okpoti Konney) home prematurely for political reasons.

  The NDC government sent two prominent lawyers in the service (Richard Asiedu and Okpoti Konney) home prematurely for political reasons.

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• Obed Adore 11 years ago

  Prisons Hospitals in every region? Wow! This is a complete OVER-KILL.
  Those needing psychiatric services could be referred to the existing psychiatric hospitals. Alternatively, some psychiatrists could be assigned to the jai ...
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  Prisons Hospitals in every region? Wow! This is a complete OVER-KILL.
  Those needing psychiatric services could be referred to the existing psychiatric hospitals. Alternatively, some psychiatrists could be assigned to the jails for the inmates to be provided services a few times weekly. As for the idea about whole prisons Hospitals... it will not happen; Not even in richer advanced countries.

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• Symbiosis 11 years ago

  The Chief Public Relations Officer of the Prisons Service has shot wide over the mark by suggesting that the Prisons service needs a Prisons hospital in each Region. Even the Military and the Police with presumable national s ...
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  The Chief Public Relations Officer of the Prisons Service has shot wide over the mark by suggesting that the Prisons service needs a Prisons hospital in each Region. Even the Military and the Police with presumable national staff strengths over 20,000, do not have hospitals in each Region.
  
  If he is comparing the Prisons Service to the Military and Police establishments, who have hospital complexes such as the Military and Police hospitals, he has got it all wrong. The internal utility requirements as well as Staff strength of the Prisons Service do not require nor warrant such a logistical appendage. Why, in any case, can we not have a Police & Prisons Hospital so that budgetary allocations for the existing Police Hospital can be significantly increased to accommodate such an exigency?
  
  I however I do think that as a matter of urgency, each Prison facility with over 200 to 300 in-mates should have a small in-built clinic with a locum medical doctor, a psychiatrist and two nurses in permanent attendance, running on a 24/7 cycle.
  
  Such a medical facility should be available to both supervisory staff and in-mates and should ultimately aim at the provision of professional or specialization needs of a Prisons institution. Serious cases requiring more advanced medical facilities and professional expertise can be referred to either the Police hospital or the Military hospital.

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• Obed Adore 11 years ago

  Ideally, your idea sounds great. I am for a tiny medical service(Clinic) with one or two nurses per shift to attend to minor emergencies. However, if the Prisons Services have medically trained staff for such emergencies thi ...
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  Ideally, your idea sounds great. I am for a tiny medical service(Clinic) with one or two nurses per shift to attend to minor emergencies. However, if the Prisons Services have medically trained staff for such emergencies this could suffice.
  A resident medical doctor and a psychiatrist will be a waste of resources, as our 3 main psychiatric hospitals in the country are crying for staff psychiatrists to treat our numerous patients. Know also that Ghana still needs psychiatrists to treat the 90% of our politicians who currently refuse to admit that they are mentally ill.

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• NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

  Ghana is pathetically a jungle where the strong animal feeds on the vulnerable.
  
  How many so called rich, children of the elites and their siblings, the criminally corrupt politically connected do we see in our prisons?
  
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  Ghana is pathetically a jungle where the strong animal feeds on the vulnerable.
  
  How many so called rich, children of the elites and their siblings, the criminally corrupt politically connected do we see in our prisons?
  
  Until the day when the majority poor rise up to say enough is enough, Ghana's justice system and deplorable prison conditions will forever remain for the poor and the deprived. Simple!

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• HABLUTA SENYO 11 years ago

  WHAT WILL YOU EXPECT 80% OF GHANA INCOME
  GO TO PAY MPS.

  WHAT WILL YOU EXPECT 80% OF GHANA INCOME
  GO TO PAY MPS.

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• jesus 11 years ago

  Dsp Vitalis is talking like the proverbial ostrich..the prison service will continue to lack professionals because they refuse to acknowkedge them and treat them as such.
  when the service begins to realise that the professio ...
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  Dsp Vitalis is talking like the proverbial ostrich..the prison service will continue to lack professionals because they refuse to acknowkedge them and treat them as such.
  when the service begins to realise that the professional has clear cut proffessional duties and would not be made to do the prison duties which in turn make them rusty.
  the treat proffessionals badly n so they will forever lack

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• jesus 11 years ago

  The prison service should learn from the armed forces they treat their professionals well and hold them high whiles prison with a few of them engineers .architects. teachers are treating them badly.

  The prison service should learn from the armed forces they treat their professionals well and hold them high whiles prison with a few of them engineers .architects. teachers are treating them badly.

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