HEALTH

The Ghana Physician Assistants Association has begun a sit-down strike in protest to the detention of one of their colleagues, Simon Takrama, one of two officers arrested in connection with the death of four persons at the New Senchi Health…
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Members of the Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Nurses and Midwives have issued a threat to picket the Ministry of Health on Monday, 23 April 2018, if they are not employed by government by that date. The nurses and midwives said they…
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The Rabito Clinic, Ghana, in collaboration with the Regional Dermatology Training Centre, Tanzania, has embarked on vigorous feasibility studies for the setting up of the University College of Dermatology in Ghana. Professor Edmund…
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The Kumasi Metropolis will soon benefit from a modern Eye Center to help boost the treatment of eye problems. Significantly, the center would be located at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional…
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The Minister for Environment, science and Innovations, Prof. Frimpong Boateng has assured Ghanaians that all efforts to introduce Genetically Modified seeds into the country’s agricultural system would not see the light of day. According…
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USAID’s Systems For Health (S4H) has donated basic healthcare equipment to primary care provider network facilities in two districts in the Volta Region. The items, which included BP apparatus, weighing scales, glucose monitors,…
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Dr. Matsidiso Rebecca Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa Regional Director has observed that accelerating Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was within reach in Africa. She said what was required was political leadership, clear…
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Dr Isabella Sagoe-Moses, National Child Health Coordinator of the Ghana Health Service has said there is the need for the health sector to be actively involved in seeking solutions to cerebral palsy issues. She specifically mentioned the…
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Beliefs and perceptions by pregnant women that they are not at risk of contracting malaria discourages most of them from prevention and treatment efforts of the disease in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Available records from the National…
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The sight of several empty chairs, which were reserved for staff of the Presbyterian Hospital in Bawku at a durbar organised by the hospital’s management to raise funds for patients too poor to access healthcare services at the facility,…
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