HEALTH

The Birim North District recorded 309 cases of teenage pregnancies between the ages of 10 to 14 years this year as compared to 280 in the previous year. Mr. Thomas Azurago, the Birim North District Health Director who disclosed this to…
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The Ghana Prisons Service has issued an alert to some prisons in the country to be on the lookout for possible cases of meningitis. Prisons in the Brong-Ahafo and Northern regions are among those advised to be on guard. The Public…
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The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and the 37 Military Hospital in Accra on Christmas day delivered 18 babies. The new born babies were made up of 11 females and 7 males out of which 14 of the babies came through normal delivery, while four…
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The Ghana Health Service has discharged some 65 persons who were put under surveillance following the death of a student of Asamankese in the Easter Region. According to the Service, these persons did not show any symptoms of the…
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Manso-Datano, a fast growing community in the Amansie-West District, has been provided with a GHȼ350,000.00 air-conditioned washroom facility. It was built for the people by a private businessman, Nana Adjei Sikapa, as his contribution…
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All 65 students and staff of Asamankese Senior High School (ASASSCO) quarantined for meningitis surveillance by the West Akyem Municipal Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have been discharged. They were put under…
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The Founder of the Mathew 25 House, an HIV and AIDS care centre, Reverend Monsignor Bobby Benson, has appealed to government to implement the disability bill to the latter to make life bearable for people living with disability. He said…
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From next year, the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua would focus on good customer care. This was declared by the Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr Kwame Anim Boamah at this year’s Nine Lessons and Carols and Award Night of the…
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Healthcare providers operating in the Agona East and Agona West administrative areas of the central region, have expressed their appreciation to government for settling  most outstanding debts owed them by the National Health Insurance…
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The Ghana Association of Public Health Technical Officers (GAPHTO) is calling for the establishment of a centre for disease control to help deal with epidemics or outbreaks in the long term. The Association in a statement urges the…
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