Food for All Africa in partnership with Miss Ghana UK
Foundation and Psychosocial Africa would next month, April bring together
tertiary students within Accra to hang out with the current Queen, Miss Sabina
Lawabea Awuni, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The hangout, NaijaAgroNet
gathered would culminate in a social event aimed at promoting mental health and
nutritional well-being among tertiary students in Ghana.
NaijaAgroNet
also gathered from Food for All Africa that for
every case of suicide reported, five people have already contemplated
committing suicide, making a total of about 200,000 people contemplating the
idea annually.
Sabina said that on the use of social get
together as a means to suicide prevention as such programmes tend to give
people listening ears.
According to a 2012 survey conducted by the
Network for Anti-suicide and Crisis Prevention in Ghana, five or more people
commit suicide every day in the country.
The dominant cause of their
death ranged from problems with parents, failure at school, inability of
parents to provide needs, impotence and relationship related issues.
Former Chief Psychiatrist of the Accra Mental
Hospital, Dr Akwesi Osei reiterates that suicide is premeditated. It is not
something one does the first time he or she thinks about it.
“There are three organizational stages of
suicide, involving “getting used to,” the idea, the means and the opportunity
or motivation,” he said.
He described the first stage as the preparation
state where a person prepares to commit suicide. People who are naturally
secretive, who come from broken homes, people with no loving childhood and
people with traumatic stress disorders are susceptible.
The second, he said were the precipitate factors
that triggered one to commit suicide. Some of the triggers were financial
crisis, loss of a loved one and separation.
The final stage was when victims remained in a
perpetual state of the desire to kill him or herself, and with the triggers
including the lack of financial support, among others.
Hang Out with Miss Ghana UK 2017, The Jubilee
Queen on Saturday 7th April 2018 at Tuo Restaurant and garden
on Ring road Central will be an experience sharing session with the
Queen, Sabina Awuni, mental health advocate, Nana Abena Korkor
Addo and Chef Elijah Addo in promoting mental health and nutritional
wellness among tertiary students in Ghana through activities such as cooking
competition,eating,games,let’s talk and music jams.
The Queen together with SRC executives of
participating schools will in the morning cook and serve breakfast to patients
of Accra psychiatric hospital.
