HEALTH

Mr Isaac Newton, a Senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Hygiene of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, has slammed Ghana’s uneven Environmental Health Officer (EHO) to a population ratio, describing it as ‘troubling’ and ‘serious’. He said…
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Members of the Medicine Practitioners and Sellers Association in the Ashanti Region have pledged to end the sale of Tramadol at their counters. The members say they are worried over the continuous abuse of the painkiller by some Ghanaian…
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The Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) says HIV/AIDS is still prevalent in Ghana and has charged the media to intensify the fight against the disease through their platforms. Speaking at a training workshop for Greater Accra Health Reporters in…
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A team of security operatives and officials of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) yesterday arrested 10 peddlers for allegedly selling harmful medicines at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region. The peddlers were arrested at the Ashaiman…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarm at increasing air pollution and the high number of people breathing air that is of poor quality. According to its new database, a copy was made available to the Ghana News Agency (GNA)…
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The Intravenous Infusion PLC, manufacturers of pharmaceutical products, has made a distress call to the government to pay GH¢10 million owed the company after the supply of infusions to hospitals under the National Health Insurance Scheme…
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As part of efforts to support women with breast cancer, a fund has been launched to raise money for their treatment. The initiative dubbed: ‘One cedi to save a Breast and a Life’, is to help make treatments not covered under the National…
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As part of the efforts to control, eliminate and eradicate skin-related Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has released some vehicles to support the 15 participating districts and their three National…
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The fight to control and eradicate skin-related neglected tropical diseases has been given added momentum by the acquisition of a fleet of vehicles and motorbikes in support of the national programme. These cost US$600,000.00 and were…
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The Ghana Paediatric Association has launched a campaign to raise awareness of neonatal jaundice - a common condition, requiring immediate medical evaluation in a newborns to prevent permanent brain damage and other physical disabilities.…
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