Director of Health Services
Authorities To Close Down KUMACA Indefinitely Over ‘mysterious’ Deaths
The Kumasi Academy is to be closed down indefinitely after three days to allow health officials conduct a thorough...
Church Donates To Visually Impaired Residents
The Latter Day Saints Church last Friday donated white canes for the visually impaired in the Upper East Region. The...
YALI Screens People of Nandom
Participants at the 2017 Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) programme have organised a Hepatitis B and C screening...
Poor Roads Hamper Healthcare Delivery In Afigya-Kwabre
The bad nature of roads in the Afigya-Kwabre District is hampering quality healthcare delivery to the people in the...
KOICA Supports Upper East Health Care With $9m
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has provided $9 million to improve the quality of Maternal, Neonatal...
‘Only 40% Use Treated Mosquito Nets In Ho’
Though 70 per cent of residents in the Ho Municipal Area have treated mosquito nets, only 40 per cent use them to...
GHS Investigate Bloated Contract In Ashanti Region
The Ghana Health Service has begun investigations into a scandal that has rocked the Juaso Government Hospital in the...
18,441 Teenage Pregnancy Cases Recorded In the Ashanti Region Last Year
A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant representing 11.4% of all pregnancies last year 2016 A total of 18,441...
Gov’t To Employ 11,000 Health Trainees, 181 Doctors
There are measures to employ 11,000 health trainees who graduated between 2012 and 2016, and 181 doctors who also...
Reports That CSM Kills 58 In UER False: 6 Dead Out of 58 Cases
The Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Kofi Issah has debunked reports that Cerebrospinal Meningitis...
Type of Meningitis That Killed KUMACA Students Yet To Be Determined – GHS
The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah, says it will take disease researchers at...
Wa Hospital Stops Fresh Admissions For Lack of Consumables
Some of the nurses who spoke to the GNA on condition of anonymity disclosed that consumables such as bandage, liquid...
Health Directorate Intensifies Tuberculosis Screening
The Upper West Regional Directorate of Health Services has intensified its screening efforts at identifying persons...
Alleged Spy For Health Director Counter Claims
Sydney Ageyomah Abilba, an employee of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), who was cited by a senior medical officer at the...
Cases of Maternal Mortality Increase In Western Region
The maternal mortality rate in the Western Region increased from 75 per cent in 2015 to 92 per cent in 2016, due mainly...
Teenage Pregnancy, Unsafe Abortions Rising In Jirapa District
Teenage pregnancy and unsafe abortions have become a worrying phenomenon in the Jirapa District of the Upper West...
Two Yellow Fever Cases Detected In 2016
The Jirapa District Health Directorate detected one suspected measles and two yellow fever cases in 2016. Specimen from...
Two Yellow Fever Cases Detected In 2016
The Jirapa District Health Directorate detected one suspected measles and two yellow fever cases in 2016. Specimen from...
UER Hospital Devises Strategies To Check Poor Health Delivery
The Upper East Regional Health Directorate and Management of the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital will from Tuesday, 31st...