HEALTH

Madam Jane Amerley Oku, the Chief Executive Officer of Janok Foundation, a non-government organization, has called on Ghanaians to undergo regular health examination for early treatment of HIV and its related diseases. She said…
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Mr Innocent Braimah, a Dietician at the Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga, has called on health professionals to educate the public on diabetes because the disease has become the main cause of deaths in the area. He said…
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Mrs Gifty Nkansah, the Nurse in charge of the Ho Municipal Hospital Diabetic Centre, has expressed concern over the rise in the number of women reporting for diabetes at the Centre. She said averagely, the Centre records 30 women to four…
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The Ashanti regional Newborn Coordinator at the Ghana Heath Service (GHS), Dr Rita Fosu-Yeboah, has said the region recorded about 12,700 premature births in 2016. She said the region has so far recorded about 11, 000 of such preterm…
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The Food and Drugs Authority in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service and other stakeholders have arrested 16 fake drug peddlers along the Madina Zongo Junction stretch. The sixteen, all Nigeriens, were arrested on Thursday night…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it has seized 524,191 capsules and 3,001 vials of Tramadol over the past eleven months. Vial is a small glass or plastic vessel or bottle, often used to store medication as liquids, powders or…
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HIV infection is fast spreading in the Sunyani Municipality, Dr. Osei Kuffour Afreh, the Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Public Health, has said. He indicated that the municipality had 4.2 per cent prevalence, being among the…
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Mr Joseph Homenya, the Volta Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has cautioned healthcare providers against billing health insurance clients "oxygen per hour." He also asked them to stop taking "service…
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First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called on stakeholders to as a matter of urgency take a unified decision to put an end to female genital mutilation. Speaking at a two-day International meeting on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) which…
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The Ashanti Region has recorded a total of 70 maternal deaths as of the end of October, down from the previous year’s same period figure of 91 deaths. Professor Baffour Opoku of the Directorate of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Komfo Anokye…
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