As a matter of urgency, the government must invest in specialised training of nurses and midwives across the country to improve expert care given to patients and reduce mortalities resulting from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and other infectious diseases. A Professor at the Department of Nursing of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Mrs Victoria Bam, who …

The Project Coordinator for the Mental Health Society of Ghana, Abena Korkor has expressed her dissatisfaction over the working conditions of nurses at psychiatric hospitals in the country. According to her, these nurses work in the face of danger each day as patients of the facilities with extreme mental health challenges sometimes attack them. “For mental health patients going through …