HEALTH

The International Central Gospel Church, ICGC has donated GHC 200,000 to the Mental Health Authority. This is for the procurement and installation of three electro- convulsive therapy machines (ECT machine) for the three psychiatric…
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A STAGGERING US$170 million is needed to complete the 45-year-old Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) project at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi. Briefing a section of the media here over the ‘abandoned project, the Chief…
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Hundreds of people from Domeabra and its surrounding communities in the Asante-Akim North District, have benefitted from a free health screening exercise organized by the Trinity Congregation of the Presbyterian Church at Domeabra. The…
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Three community psychiatric units in the Tema Metropolis were in 2018 denied supply of needed essential medications leading to relapses of patients' conditions. The medicines included Olanzapine 10mg, Carbamazepine 200mg, Phenobarbitone…
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Ghana’s Second Lady Mrs. Samira Bawumia, through her not-for-profit organisation, the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP), has secured twelve (12) scholarships and free services for children needing special pediatric care…
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Fishermen operating on the coastline of Tema have threatened to embark on a demonstration exercise against the Meridian Ports Services (MPS) because the company had refused to compensate them despite earlier assurances. According to the…
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Government of Ghana has acceded to threats by some unemployed private nurses who had vowed to hit the streets if government failed to employ them into the mainstream health sector. Barely 24 hours after the aggrieved nurses held a press…
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The number of mothers who die after a Caesarean-section in Africa is as much as 50 times higher than in developed countries, according to a study in the medical journal The Lancet. Their sample indicated that one in 200 women dies during…
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GOVERNMENT has been urged to give special incentive packages to medical doctors that are posted to the rural areas to motivate them to happily move to the deprived communities to do their work. The President of the Ghana Medical…
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The scientific works of renowned Ghanaian Prostate scientist, and Prostate scientist and Professor of Alternative Medicine, Dr Raphael Nyarkotey Obu seem to have reached far beyond the borders of the African continent. After whisking…
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