HEALTH

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has refuted claims that there is a meningitis outbreak in the country. According to the Service, the deaths of some students from meningitis in recent weeks are isolated cases that do not constitute an…
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The Ashanti Regional Branch of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has destroyed expired items worth thousands of cedis. The items include damaged products, which were either withdrawn from the market by the FDA or submitted by the…
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Dr Kwaku Agyemang Manu, the Minister of Health, on Friday said the issue of medical brain drain continued to be a major concern to the government and the people of Ghana. He said available statistics indicated that since 1996 about 5,000…
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Ghana will today take delivery of the anti-viral agents Tamiflu from the World Health Organization, as part of measures to combat the threat posed by the 2009 H1N1 strain of influenza, also known as swine flu. Vaccines for the swine flu…
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THE MOTHER and Baby Unit (MBU), being built at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, will be ready for public use in January, 2018. The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo’s foundation, dubbed ‘Rebecca Foundation’, is the brain…
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The Ghana Association of Medical Herbalists (GAMH), has charged private herbal centres in the country, not to handle suspected cases of Meningitis and H1N1 reported to their facilities. According to them, there are currently no certified…
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In response to the swelling health concerns in some senior high schools, as lives were lost and many others hospitalised, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has called on government to initiate plans for two Infectious Disease Centres.…
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The New Juaben Municipal Health Director of the Ghana Health Service in the Eastern region has attributed the spread of meningitis in some Senior High Schools across the country to congestion in those schools. So far over five students…
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The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has asked the government to set up at least two national infectious disease centres, one in the southern sector and another in the northern sector, to facilitate prompt diagnosis, service delivery,…
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The leadership of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has expressed concern on the recent outbreak of H1N1 Influenza at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) that has claimed the lives of some students. The leadership of…
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