HEALTH

The Upper East Region on Friday marked the World Prematurity day at the Tanga-Poore Community in the Bongo District with a call on stakeholders, particularly traditional rulers and community members to ensure that women go for antenatal and…
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Hundreds of school Pupils in the Cape Coast Metropolis on Sunday defied their usual church service and marched through the principal streets to re-echo the need to end the menace of open defecation. Supervised by dozens of teachers…
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A paediatric nurse at the Apinto Government Hospital in the Tarkwa Nsueam Constituency, Madam Gladys Mawuse Fummey, has advised women to adopt the habit of regularly examining their own breasts. She said examining the breast monthly was…
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The Kangaroo Babies Care Unit of the Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua, has saved the lives of 450 preterm babies in less than two years of its establishment. Dr. Jocelyn Asibey, Head of the Child Health Department of the Hospital,…
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Students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) benefitting from the Mastercard Foundation Scholars’ Programme, have joined the campaign to save lives at the KomfoAnokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) with a blood…
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A health watchdog has ordered a more explicit warning on labels of green tea extract products over concerns about the risk of liver injury. The move by Health Canada follows a federal safety review, which was prompted after teenager…
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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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