The Daily Graphic describe as apt the announcement by an NGO “Think About a Mentally Challenged Person Near You” to begin a nationwide sensitisation programme next month to educate Ghanaians on mental disorders and their associated dangers. The Paper says it finds the campaign useful and critical towards improving mental health. The Graphic finds it worrying that in spite of efforts made by the Mental Health Authority to advocate the passing of the legislative instrument which will ensure that a mental health levy is imposed to provide funding, not much has been achieved leaving the situation more depressing. It says what is more disturbing is the attitude of society towards the mentally ill, sometimes as a result of ignorance, myths and superstition. It therefore appeals to individuals and corporate organizations to offer their support for the campaign.
The Ghanaian Times adds it voice to calls by the Media Coalition against Open Defecation for the Ghana Education Service to ensure that schools across the country are provided with sanitary facilities. The Paper urges government, the civil service and religious bodies to join hands in providing the schools with toilet facilities. The Times thinks that efforts to end open defecation must not end at the sea shore, open spaces, bushes and street corners but must be extended to school compounds across the country saying that is the only way to end the situation in the country.
