BasicNeeds Ghana is living through the shock of the sudden passing on of our hard-working affable President to the higher heavens. We wish to express our condolences to the First Lady Mrs. Ernestina Naadu Mills, the entire family of President Mills and the government and people of Ghana.BasicNeeds Ghana remembers the keen interest and actions of the late President to mental health. It was during the time of His Excellency Prof. Mills that mental health received greatest attention in Ghana’s history. He did not only visit the Accra Psychiatric hospital but ensured improvement of the water supply system of the hospital. The passage of the mental health Bill into an Act of Parliament was quickly assented by him for it to become Law (Act 846) and this Law will remain a key legislation to improving the welfare of people with mental illness or epilepsy. It was clear that it won’t be long for the needed structures to be set up for proper reforms to take place.His exhibition of calmness and perseverance was reassuring to people living with mental illness or caring for people with mental illness. It was no surprise some groups of people with mental illness or epilepsy and their care-givers quickly adopted the age long saying of ‘slow but sure to recovery’ following his making a statement to that effect in one of his state of the nation address.While we mourn our dear President, we wish to extent our good wishes to his Excellency President John Dramani Mahama. President John Mahama has demonstrated several times his soft-spot for persons with disability for which we are very hopeful he will see through to the setting up of the necessary structures for the effective reform of the mental health sector in order for persons that have lived experiences of mental illness or epilepsy to play their roles to the best of their capacity in family, community and national affairs. We wish him well.