HEALTH

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibilities (CRS), the Holy Child School Past Students Association (HOPSA), has donated to the Female Acute Ward of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. The donations, they said would be used to the…
Read More...

Former Deputy Health Minister, Dr Victor Bampoe says the government must not overlook the role congestion plays in the spread of meningitis in Senior High Schools (SHSs). He said suggestions that congestion is behind the rapid spread of…
Read More...

Dr Winfred Ofosu, the Upper East Regional Director of Health Services has urged health professionals to reach out to more people with information on Family Planning (FP) and to properly educate prospective FP clients before serving them.…
Read More...

Some health personnel in the Nkwanta South District of the Volta region have expressed worry over the continuous reliance on traditional and customary practices in making health decisions mostly ineffective. Reverend Sister Georgina…
Read More...

The Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Kingsley Aboagye-Gyedu has revealed that despite government's efforts to provide medical professionals with proper remuneration, an alarming number of them still abandon their duties to seek better…
Read More...

Director of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Asiedu Bekoe, has revealed that the Antiviral drugs ―Tamiflu needed for the treatment of the deadly H1N1 Influenza which claimed the lives of some students at the Kumasi…
Read More...

The Health Minister has dismissed assertions that congestion as a result of implementing the free SHS policy is the cause of disease outbreaks recorded in some Senior High Schools across the country. Kwaku Agyeman Manu says the death…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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 The items include damaged products, which were either withdrawn from the market by the FDA or submitted by the…
Read More...

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…
Read More...