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Ghana
Officials in Ghana are joyful over the demonstrated interest in psychiatry by a handful of physicians. But the numbers are still tiny in a country where three psychiatric hospitals treated nearly 100,000 people according to Myjoyonline. This represents a four percent increase over 2006.
Ireland
Twelve percent of Irish jails are filled with prisoners suffering from a psychotic condition making them "unfit for incarceration." A shortage of beds, and the construction of a new psychiatric hospital adjacent to a prison were outlined in a report to be released in Dublin.
