It appears the cost of treatment is a contributing factor bedeviling most affected mental ill-health families in the northern sector, this was according to Billy, the Upper East mentally ill celebrity.
Billy a young man who turned 40 years in March 2021, is mostly seen in the principal street of Bolgatanga the Upper East Regional capital taking his bath in the open, washing and drying his clothes in the street, and even sometimes, mostly seen enjoying some dead animals after preparing it as his delicacy.
In his recent interview with Apexnewsgh-TV, Billy sighted the difficulty in accessing mental facilities in the northern sector as a challenge.
According to him, a mental hospital could only be found in the southern sector.
He also sighted the cost of treatment for persons with mental illness as another issue that most families in the north considered before sending their affected family members to any of the mental hospitals in the southern sector.
“The mad is not treated in the north, you can’t find a mental hospital in the northern sector, it had me in Accra and they took me to a hospital called Pantang hospital. I was there for numerous months before they discharged me to other admissions”.
“But now is a Ghc 1,500.00 that will take you in and my people are now saying that first it was sober to put you behind mental hospital but now, since the fees are Ghc 1,500.00, they can’t take him back there. They said if they could make use of Ghc 1,500, why will they be taking a family member to be in the mental hospital? As in it, knowing that i would be deprived from the turn around have at my smoking”. Billy told Ngamegbulam Stephen of Apexnewsgh-TV in an Interview.
However, Apexnewsgh-TV is using its platform to solicit support from anyone touched with the plight of our intelligent Billy. His condition at the moment could be corrected by giving him the necessary attention and medication he deserved.
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