The Ministry of Health has concluded work on the Mental Health Bill and is expected to forward it to Cabinet for consideration before the end of July.
Dr George Sipa Yankey, the Health Minister, told Parliament on Tuesday that the Ministry held a stakeholders meeting on the draft Health Regulations which included the Mental Health Bill, on June 29 to 30 at Agona Swedru.
Issues raised were being put together for fine tuning of the bill before submission to cabinet and subsequent forwarding to Parliament for further action.
The Minister, who was responding to a question on when the bill would be presented to the House, said some issues covered in the bill included the rights of mental patients and the integration of patients into society.
The Minster, responding to another question, told Members of Parliament that the completion of the Accident and Emergency Centre at the Takoradi Hospital in the Western Region remained a priority of the Ministry in view of the large number of people expected to be drawn to the area with the discovery of oil and gas.
"The project will therefore be completed as soon as funds are available," he said.
Earlier, the Mrs Zita Okaikwei, Information Minister, told Parliament that the Sports Desk of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) officially wrote to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) seeking for rights to produce and telecast the matches of the 2008/2009 League Season.
She however said OMP, an associate of Metro TV, won the bid for the Glo Premier League.
The Minister was responding to a question on when Ghanaians would be able to watch the Premier League on Ghana Television (GTV) since the other networks do not cover the hinterlands and rural areas.
She said when GBC put in a bid to the GFA to telecast the league, before it could get a response from the GFA, it appeared in the newspapers that the broadcasting rights of the premier league had been sold to Gateway Broadcasting System (GBS) for three years.
Mrs Okaikwei said not long afterwards, GBS got liquidated and GBC went back to the GFA with a new proposal to continue from where GBS left off.
She said GBC never had any feed back from the GFA "until we read from the newspapers that OMP (an associate of Metro TV) had won the bid for the Glo Premier League."
"The GFA contract with OMP (Metro TV), we are told, will end after the 2010/11 Premier league."
"GBC will be able to show the Premier League during the 2011/12 League season," the Minister said.