HEALTH

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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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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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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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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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 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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The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, has given a facelift to the Women’s Infirmary Ward of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. The Minister fixed hanging roofs at the ward, replaced old louvres with…
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Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene and Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for increased funding for research into tropical medicine. He said the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research…
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Yaw Attah Arhin, Technical Coordinator, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) has called on government to prioritize sanitation and increase its budget for the sector. According to him, government’s lack of prioritizing the sector has…
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Accra Brewery Ltd. (ABL) has extended its Alcohol and Pregnancy Programme to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) as part of its efforts to create a Healthier World. The Programme sensitises pregnant women on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum…
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