HEALTH

Residents of Techiman Krobo in the Brong Ahafo region are opposing the transfer of the embattled former principal of the Tepa nursing and midwifery training college Victoria Amoah to the Techiman Krobo nursing training college. Victoria…
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The Ga West Municipal Assembly is spending some 1.2 million Ghana cedis to operationalize the abandoned Ofankor Health Centre. The health centre which was constructed two years ago by the government with funding from the African…
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Prekese or Tetrapleura tetraplera is a native of west tropical Africa and belongs to the pea family. The fruits of the plant have a pungent aromatic odor due to which it also possesses insect repellent properties. It is primarily used as…
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Dr. Emanuel Kofi Amponsah, the Medical Director of the Sunyani Regional Hospital (SRH) has cautioned that the use of mobile phones during working hours at health facilities is a breach of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Code of Conduct.…
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A 2-year-old baby girl has died at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital in Accra due to the unavailability of a CT scan and other facilities at the referral centre. Father of the baby, Richard Yaw Asante, told Chief Jerry Forson on the Ghana…
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Pressure group OccupyGhana has described as appalling the unavailability of a “functioning and coordinated Emergency Response System” in Ghana’s health system, thus, “People who need emergency care simply cannot call for help”. In a…
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Long waiting times and inconvenience of travelling long distances to NHIS District Offices to renew membership will soon be a thing of the past as NHIA introduces a new innovation using mobile phones with a short code for renewal of…
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  Pupils of Duabone R/C Primary School, a beneficiary school in the Agona East District, of the Central Region of Ghana, now grow and eat more vegetables, to maintain a healthier lifestyle, thanks to the collaboration between Nestlé and…
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“It is important to do a thorough medical routine after a long fast to be sure that the health of the one who fasted is in good shape,” a member of the Ghana Lion Club, Lion Kobina Appiah has advised. It is for this reason that the Ghana…
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Ghana has become the first sub-Saharan African country to eliminate trachoma. Trachoma is noted as the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this milestone and congratulated…
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