HEALTH

Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), says it has not recorded cases of measles in the country since 2003. He said measles had become one of the rare care medical cases after the GHS had taken…
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A health practitioner has raised concerns about the increasing use of emergency contraceptives by school girls saying it has implications for their ability to get pregnant in future. Mr Peter Mintir Amadu, Executive Director of Total…
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MORE THAN 400 people have benefitted from a one-day free health screening exercise in the Manhyia South Constituency in Kumasi. It was organized by the Asante Professionals Club (APC), made up of different professionals that have come…
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Ghana will use hydroxyurea, a generic drug developed by Novartis, for the treatment of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) following a five-year agreement signed in January this year. The treatment, according to the Ghana Health Service, will soon…
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Two Ghanaian Citizens, Mohammed Bashiru and Seth Tagoe, have filed suite against Ghana water company and the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission at an Accra High Court . The plaintiff is claiming for a declaration that a careful…
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The Board of Ghana’s Medical and Dental Council has announced the decision to consider a policy for foreign-trained Ghanaian doctors. According to the council, the policy will address the incessant failure of the Medical and Dental…
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Mr Salifu Saeed, the Northern Regional Minister, has said Open Defecation (OD) rate in the Northern Region currently stands at 56.8 per cent, which is a 10 per cent reduction of the 2017 rate which stood at 67.6 per cent. He said…
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The founder and President of the Nyarkotey College of Holistic Medicine, Dr. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, has called on government to speed up the passage of the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Bill which has been neglected . According to…
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The Ahyireman Community in the Ahafo ano East District of the Ashanti Region is not connected to the National Grid, Water and Transportation are other challenges facing the local population. The community health planning Services ships…
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About 28,414 health sector employees are facing deletion from government payroll following the Health Ministry’s failure to respond to payroll audit observations by the Auditor General. The Auditor General in 2018 opened a public sector…
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