HEALTH

Quackery is a health scam that brings to the doorstep of desperate persons seeming solutions that are most likely to steal their health―the most priceless of all gifts. It is for this reason that the Konor of Yilo Klo state, Oklepeme…
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has donated non-incineration waste management technologies (autoclaves) and waste bins to some selected health facilities in the country. The beneficiary hospitals are Cape Coast Teaching…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in the Volta Region has intercepted two KIA buses loaded with drugs at Sogakofe border. The buses, with registration numbers GT 4936 18 and GT 4503 17 were transporting the drugs worth GHC100,000.00…
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Professor of Cardiology, Nicholas Ossei-Gerning, has charged heart surgeons in the country to adhere to stringent professionalism to rescue cardiovascular patients from premature deaths. His call comes at a time that the World Health…
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School of Hygiene students are threatening to hit the streets over the failure of government to restore their allowance that was scrapped in 2015. The students from Ho, Tamale and Accra Schools of Hygiene last year, embarked on a series…
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The residents of five cocoa growing communities in the Sunyani Municipality have appealed to the Municipal Assembly to intervene for the operationalisation of the Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) Compound in the area. The…
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Dr George Nana Brown, Dean of City of London Dental School Post Graduate Programme in West Africa has observed that the neglect of dental education in Ghana was increasing general disease burden. He said the mouth remained a major…
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Have you ever groaned in excruciating pain over an ailment which may not easily be tamed with a simple drug or pain reliever? How many sleepless nights and days can you endure, lying on one side of your body? This is the ordeal of…
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Elephantiasis is fast spreading in the Sunyani Municipality, Mr. Robin Appiah, the Municipal Health Promotion Officer said on Tuesday. He said 10 cases had been recorded and victims had been placed on life drugs. Interacting with the…
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Nine-hundred and eighty-six adolescent girls in the Greater Accra Region in 2017, engaged in illegal termination of their pregnancies. The figure comprised of 31 girls aged between 10 and 14, and 955 adolescent girls aged between 15 and…
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