HEALTH

Mobile phone retail company Telefonika has donated an amount of GH¢12,050 to the Children’s Cancer Ward of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as part of its commitment to help improve the lives of children suffering from cancer. The donation…
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Ghana and three other African countries - the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Zambia - have licensed and can now distribute an Ebola vaccine, which the World Heath Organization (WHO) has hailed as a "milestone". Preliminary…
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About 2 million children are to be immunized against polio virus type 2 in a nationwide inactive polio vaccine (IPV) immunization campaign. The campaign is commencing from February 19 to February 25, 2020 by the Ghana Health Service.…
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The Ashaiman Municipal Health Directorate reduced maternal mortality in 2019, recording only three cases against six cases in 2018. Mrs Patience Ami Mamattah, Ashaiman Municipal Director of Health Services, announced this during the…
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The first fatality from the Coronavirus has been reported in France. According to the BBC, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist has died in France after contracting the disease. The victim was from China’s Hubei province, according to French…
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A group of nurses and midwives have hit hard at the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) over what they describe as unconsented deductions. According to them, the new executives of Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives…
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The Chamber of Pharmacy, Ghana (CoPG) has served notice that its members will no longer provide medicines to hospitals that have delayed in paying for drugs offered, for more than three months. This, it said, is to forestall any…
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The General Overseer of Covenant Family Chapel, Apostle Paa Kwesi Holly-Nord, has revealed that people who usually like to stay indoors have the tendency to masturbate. Speaking on Onua FM’s drive time show ‘Efie Ne Fie’ with Dr.…
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Chiefs in the Wa municipality of the Upper West Region have expressed grave concern over the deplorable state of health care delivery in the area. The paramount chief of the Waala traditional area, Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV who raised…
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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the three regions of Bono, Bono East and Ahafo is embarking on a second round of poliomyelitis vaccination, one of the six childhood killer diseases. A total of 570,864 children are expected to be…
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