Tooth came out to the Gold Coast from the United Kingdom, and conducted a survey, the result of which awakened some interest in the Government of the day, to embark on a programme to improve the lot of the mentally disordered patients.įor nine years, there was only one psychiatrist in the country. Prior to his appointment the need for the establishment of some form of scientific treatment for the mentally sick, and an appraisal of the extent and distribution of mental illness in the country, had been felt.
The first African Psychiatrist appeared on the mental health scene in Africa, south of the Sahara in 1951, and was posted to the then Gold Coast, to the mental hospital at Accra.
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