Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of Persons with Mental Health Disorder seem to be cordial in the Upper East Region. This might be as a result of some advocates initiated by some NGOs and some other Alliance interested in issues bothering Persons with mental health disorders across the Northern Regions of Ghana.
Meanwhile, when you are looking at SRHR rights for Persons with Mental Health Disorder, it means you want to know, how they are getting married, who they are getting married to, those who want to prevent them not to get married due to their mental disorder, their sexual life, the number of children they want to have, whether they forced to take family planning without their concern? Should any of them becomes pregnant forcefully or against their wishes, what happens?
However, per Apexnews Gh investigation in the region, it appears in the case of Upper East Region, SRHR of Persons with Mental Health Disorder is consider very important across the region, following the numerous sensitization workshop and awareness creation engineered by BasicNeeds Ghana and members of Regional Alliance for Persons with Mental Health.
To confirm our investigation, our checks at the Upper East Regional Health Directorate, Mental Health Department confirmed through the Regional Mental Coordinator Edem Amegeleh that the department has not received any report of abuse regarding SRHR of Person with Mental Health Disorder in the region.
However, it is important to note that persons with mental health disorders around us are equally humans and also had the equal sexual rights to satisfy that urge with dignity rather than being abused.
