HEALTH

An Immunisation Consultant for the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Mercy Ahun has allayed fears of Ghanaians over the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines which are expected to arrive in the country by the close of this week. Her…
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Dr George Kwadwo Nyarko, the Akatsi South Municipal Director of Health Services, has expressed worry about the attitude of some residents in Akatsi South towards the surge in the Coronavirus disease within the Municipality. He said many…
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The Manhyia Government Hospital in the Ashanti region is bedeviled with inadequate space at the maternity ward, which is negatively affecting health care delivery. When the number of women in labour is at its peak, management says, they…
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Environmental Health practitioners within the Cape Coast Metropolis have threatened to boycott the burial of persons who succumb to COVID-19, if they do not receive benefits due them as frontline health workers. While underscoring the…
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Ghana is making plans to secure Ebola vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO) to mitigate the effect of the virus in case the country records cases, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye…
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Nigerian authorities have put health workers on red alert following the resurgence of Ebola epidemic in Guinea. Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said they would monitor all entry points to pick out any suspected cases, local media reports.…
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THE 44 YEAR old Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) project at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) will be pulled down on the coming weeks. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government had provided the needed amount of money to once-and-for-all…
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When it comes to memory, sleep is a Goldilocks issue: both too much and too little aren’t good. Aim for “just right,” says a report from the Harvard-based Nurses’ Health Study. “Our findings suggest that getting an ‘average’ amount of…
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Millions of people are familiar with it - snoring. The number one annoyance in the bedroom at night. About one in two men and one in four women of middle age or older snores in their sleep. Previously dismissed as just an annoying…
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African women and women of African descent who use hair straightening creams and lotions on their hair stand a higher risk of developing fibroid and cancers of the female genital tract which can lead to infertility, says Professor Agyeman…
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