HEALTH

Ho Municipal Hospital has been adjudged the best health facility in the Volta Region at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) 2018 regional peer review conference. Dr Lawrence Kumi, Medical Director of the Hospital was praised for his “prudent…
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Out of the 28.83 million people living in Ghana, over 700,000 of them are said to be affected with the Glaucoma―a leading eye defect. According to the Ophthalmological Society of Ghana (OSG) eight out of 100 Ghanaians between the age of…
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“Every day at the emergency department of the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), we realize not less than three cases of terminal kidney diseases coming in,” a doctor at the Renal Department of KBTH has revealed. This according to the…
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A sizeable chunk of the hordes of child-patients who troop to the 200-bed capacity Wa Regional Hospital in the Upper West Region for medical attention end up being treated on the bare floor due to lack of adequate beds, Wa-based Home Radio…
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Tech Era, a tech non-profit based organisation in Ghana has partnered with Dextra, a Canadian social enterprise and engineering company to create affordable assistive technologies for persons with disability. The two organizations seek…
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Members of the Coalition of Unemployed Private Nurses (COUPN) have accused the government of discriminating against them over jobs.According to the group, the ministries of health and finance have “not been truthful with us, especially on…
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Final year counselling students of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) have called on all to join the awareness creation, prevention and treatment of Hepatitis B campaign for the disease to be eradicated in the country. The appeal…
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Dr. Gaynor Ama Ankamah, a Psychiatric at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has expressed worry over the alarming rate of mental health cases being recorded in the country. Currently, one out of every four people has mental…
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The Jospong Ladies Club (JOLAC), a female group of Ghana’s biggest business conglomerate, the Jospong Group of Companies stormed the madina market on International Women’s Day to undertake a massive clean-up exercise to rid it of filth.…
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The National Blood Service Ghana has called on the government to pass the National Blood Service Bill into law.According to NBS-Ghana CEO, Dr Justina Ansah, the bill, if passed into law, will promote effective blood collection,…
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