HEALTH

The Ghana Health Service has denied sanctioning some health facilities to charge monies for vaccinating students as schools prepare to reopen next week. It emerged on Friday that some health institutions in the country were charging as…
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A Street Hygiene Ambassador (SHA), Evangelist Bright Adoboe, has expressed worry at the rate at which Ghanaians are living in filth.He has observed that currently, the sanitation coverage in Ghana was about 14 percent, meaning that 86…
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An ultra-modern $200, 000 US-dollar Intensive Care Unit with Medical equipment has been established in the Yendi Municipal Hospital of Northern Region. The project is funded by Ghana and Global Missions Resources Centre, Yendi to step up…
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Some angry parents are demanding explanations from the Ghana Health Service on why they have been made to pay GH¢250 to vaccinate their wards against H1N1 flu virus (Swine Flu). Some of them who visited the Adabraka Clinic for the…
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The rains are gone leaving the air as pale as ghost; the morning is gravely cold and noses are clogged with rheum and little bits of sneezing, coughing here and there. The skin cracks, the lips suffer dryness―its Harmattan. Harmattan…
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The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has announced the decision to launch an endowment fund to get individuals and corporate organizations to provide financial support to replace ageing equipment at the referral facility. Dr.…
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The Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyemang Manu has announced that the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital would receive a facelift that would be upgrade it into a “small” teaching hospital. According to him, refurbishment of the hospital would…
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Patients undergoing surgery in Africa are more than twice as likely to die following an operation than the global average, researchers say. But they say the most worrying revelation was just how few Africans have access to elective surgery…
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The Director General (DG) of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare has commended United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Systems for Health project and the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for…
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The world can expect a lot more concreate and significant results in the next three to five years from member countries of the United Nations working to achieve Health for all by 2030 also known as Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Listening…
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