Nat’l Blood Bank Calls For Autonomy
The National Blood Bank Service has called for a legislative instrument to be passed urgently by Parliament to enable them become an autonomous body in its day-to-day activities. At an annual...
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Doctors Struggling With Obsolete, Broken Down Machines At Binde Health Center
Doctors and medical staff at the Binde Health Center in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern Region are calling for emergency rehabilitation of the facility to fix some structural defects...
Contaminated Blood Scandal Inquiry Announced
A UK-wide inquiry will be held into the contaminated blood scandal that left at least 2,400 people dead, the prime minister has confirmed. A spokesman for Theresa May said it would establish the...
Blood Safety Information System Launched In Ghana
Ghana has become the second country in Africa, after Lesotho to launch a Blood Safety Information System (BSIS). The BSIS is an open source information system designed to manage donor and blood...
Blood Safety Information System Launched
Ghana has become the second country in Africa, after Lesotho to launch a Blood Safety Information System (BSIS). The BSIS is an open source information system designed to manage donor and blood...
US Supports Blood Safety Project In Ghana
A blood safety and information (BSIS) system has been launched for the National Blood Service, Ghana (NBSG), in Accra. The electronic information management system will help track blood donor...
Greater Accra Region Records 197 Maternal Deaths
The Greater Accra Region recorded 197 maternal deaths, while 100 women died through bleeding. Dr Linda A. Vanotoo, the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), who made this known in...
Greater Accra Region Tops Maternal Deaths In Ghana – GHS
The Greater Accra Region has recorded the highest number of maternal deaths in the country with the leading cause being bleeding and hypertension, the Ghana Health (GHS) has said. In 2016, the region...
Sakawa Fears Prevent Donors For Yendi Hospital Blood Bank
Residents of Yendi in the Northern Region have revealed that the apathy toward voluntary blood donations stem from rumours about nurses at the hospital trading blood to ritualists also known in the...
Sakawa Boys Frustrating Blood Donation At Yendi Hospital
Residents of Yendi in the Northern Region have revealed that the apathy toward voluntary blood donations stem from rumours about nurses at the hospital trading blood to ritualists also known in the...
Rotaract Donates Blood
The Rotaract clubs of Umat, Takoradi and UCC as part of their Anniversary embarked on a blood donation exercise at the University Of Cape Coast in the central region. The exercise was organized to...
GLI Donates To 37 Military Hospital
GHANA Life Insurance (GLI) Company has donated blood and some food items worth hundreds of cedis to the 37 Military Hospital to mark 37 years of its existence. The programme christened “Ghana Life...
37 Military Hospital Marks Anniversary With Blood Donation Exercise
The 37 military hospital, as part of its 75th-anniversary celebrations has organised a two-day blood donation exercise. The aim of the project is to restock the blood bank and provide support for...
Hospitals Told To Ensure Blood Safety
Health facilities have been urged to go the extra mile to keep fridges and other blood transfusion equipment clean and free from contamination. Mr. Mathew Gyan Nkum, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Director...
MTN Collects 2,551 Pints of Blood In “Save A Life” Campaign
The MTN Ghana Foundation has collected 2,551 pints of blood at its sixth annual “Save a Life” blood donation campaign, exceeding its target of 2,017 pints. The annual exercise gives staff of MTN...
Hundreds Troop To TV3 For ‘big’ Blood Donation Event
Hundreds of well-meaning Ghanaians are at the premises of TV3 Network Limited to donate blood to help stock the National Blood Bank. Among the prospective donors from far and near are businessmen,...
No Sex For Blood Donors
Men who donated blood last Wednesday, in commemoration of the Valentine’s Day, and hoped to have good time in bed with their partners had to postpone that. This is because having sex 24 hours after...
MTN ‘Save A Life’ Blood Donation Campaign Exceeds Target With 2,551pints
The sixth edition of MTN’s annual Valentine’s Day blood donation exercise was hugely successful, with 2,551 pints of blood collected at ten regions in Ghana. MTN’s ‘Save A Life’ campaign...
MTN Organises Blood Donation On Val’s Day
Telecommunications giant, Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN), has organised a blood donation exercise in Cape Coast in the Central Region to save lives of people. The exercise, which was...
MTN Ghana Holds Blood Donation In Ho To Mark Valentine
The Foundation's target for the exercise was to collect about 2017 pints of blood The annual blood donation exercise organized by MTN Ghana Foundation, dubbed ‘Save a Life" campaign, has taken...