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Removing Ankaful Director Will Set Bad Precedent – Gov’t
The Ministry of Health says it will not remove the embattled Medical Director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Eugene Dordoye.
Despite the growing demand for his removal by the staff, the Ministry says removing him would serve as…
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Government Embarks On Mass Construction Of Hospitals
In order to bridge the gap to the access of equitable and quality health care in Ghana, the government has begun extensive provision of infrastructure and medical interventions in various part of the country.
This timely intervention…
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Don’t Use NHIS Funds for Sponsorship Activities – Dr Prah
Dr George Kweku Prah, the Medical Director of the Trauma Hospital in Winneba, has described as “unfair and unacceptable’’ the use of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) funds to sponsor football activities when it owes healthcare…
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Government Urged to Engage Private Nursing Students
Ms Mabel Mantey, the Women’s Commissioner of the Students Representation Council (SRC) of the Pentecost University College, has urged government to engage private nursing students just as it engages those in government institutions.…
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Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital Staff on Sit Down Strike
Nurses and Staff of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, on Thursday began an indefinite sit-down strike to register their displeasure with the Ministry of Health for refusing to replace their Director as requested earlier.
The staff, on…
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$50m Needed to Complete UG Medical Centre
The Minister of Heath, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has revealed that a colossal sum of $50 Million is needed to complete the University of Ghana Medical Centre.
According to him, though Phase I of the project looks completed, some additional…
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NHIS ‘Trots’ Back To Health
The Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has assured Ghanaians that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) under the present government would work again.
According to him, the government in collaboration with the Ministry of…
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I’ll Resolve Ankaful Impasse – Health Minister Assures
The Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu has assured to amicably resolve the current impasse at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central region.
His comments come after Staff of the Psychiatric Hospital abandoned inmates at the…
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Ankaful Management Denies Discharging Patients
Management of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital has denied authorising a mass premature discharge of its mental patients in connection with a sit-down strike by nurses beginning today, Thursday, 23 November 2017.Media reports earlier this…
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Staff of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital ‘Set Patients Free’
Staff of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have laid down their tools in demand for the removal of the hospital’s Medical Director, Dr Eugene Dordoye.
They have thus closed the Out-Patient Department of the facility…
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