Ghana Is Ready To Beat Malaria
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the effective execution of the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Control, as well as the introduction of other innovative strategies means “Ghana stands...
Tag: Ghana Health Service
FDA Investigates Deaths After Injection At A Health Centre
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it has dispatched a team to Akrade in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region after three people reportedly died after receiving injection at a health...
We’re Ready To Contain Lassa Fever If…
Director of the Ghana Public Health Service, Dr. Badu Sarkodie, has assured Ghanaians his outfit is prepared to contain lassa fever should there be an outbreak in the country. He was reacting to the...
The Community In Ghana Where Patients Wait Twice In A Month To Get Medical Care
Residents of Assin Bosomadwe, a farming community in the Assin South District of the Central Region who fall sick have to wait for weeks in every month in order to access good and affordable...
The Community In Ghana Where Patients Wait Twice In A Month To Medical Care
Residents of Assin Bosomadwe, a farming community in the Assin South District of the Central Region who fall sick have to wait for weeks in every month in order to access good and affordable...
Ghana, Cuba To Join Forces To Fight Malaria
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated government’s commitment to eradicate malaria and other mosquito-transmitted diseases in the country. He said malaria had caused significant number...
WhatsApp Platform Helps To Reduce Maternal Mortality
The usage of WhatsApp, a social media platform, has contributed to the effort of reducing institutional maternal mortality from 145 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2015 to 109 per 100,000...
GHS Dispels Lassa Fever Outbreak Scare
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has allayed the fears of the public on the outbreak of Lassa fever, saying its alert was to create the needed awareness so that precautionary measures would be strictly...
Health Insurance Owes Swedru Ahmadiyya Hospital 15 Months Arrears
Dr Khan Rafi A. Sahibzada, the Medical Director of Agona Swedru Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Hospital, says the continuous delay in payment of National Health Insurance Claims has become a major obstacle...
Agona West Tops Teenage Pregnancy Cases In Central Region
The Agona West Municipality recorded a total of 762 cases of teenage pregnancy cases mostly school girls age between 10 and 15 years in 2017 as against 678 cases in 2016. This came to light at the...
USAID Supports Transformation of Private Maternity Homes In Ghana
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners have celebrated the transformation of private maternity homes in Ghana. The celebration saw the gathering of Midwives,...
Committee of Experts To Promote Medical Tourism Inaugurated
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) Council, on Tuesday inaugurated a five-member Committee of Experts to promote medical tourism to enhance healthcare delivery in the country. Medical tourism primarily...
Swine Flu Vaccines Arrive, Citizens To Be Administered Drugs Soonest
Swine Flu Vaccines – Vaccines for the H1N1 flu have arrived the country says the Ministry of Health. The Public Relations Officer officer at the ministry who interacted with Citi News said that a...
Meningitis Claims 3rd Student In Upper East In A Week!
A suspected case of meningitis has claimed the third final year student at the Upper East Region; this time, a Zuarungu SHS student. Recall that two other final year students had died of what is also...
Drugs and Vaccines For Disease En Route To Ghana
Swine Flu – Drugs will be administered to carriers, as well as those quarantined for the endemic swine flu disease. Ghana Education Service (GES) issued a statement after a meeting with the...
17-Year-Old Victim Laid To Rest
KUMACA Deaths – It was a very sad and sorrowful atmosphere at, Krofom, Bremang in the Ashanti region, as one of the victims of the Influenza H1N1 outbreak at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School...
Doctors Report On Collapsed Students Out
Investigations on the health conditions of the over 20 sick students of the St Martins SHS have been concluded, and according to doctors, no serious medical condition led to the incidents....
Everything You Should Know As Outbreak HIts Ghana
The medical terms may have been ambiguous for the layman but the Influenza H1N1 said to have led to the demise of students at KUMACA is called Swine Flu. The Ghana Health Service has warned of an...
Central Region Teenage Pregnancy
The issue of the Central Region teenage pregnancy has since remained worrisome, with the latest discovery being that girls now exchange sex for fish which they sell to make a living. According to a...
Kumasi Academy Deaths Remain ‘Mysterious’ As Meningitis Is Ruled Out
The actual cause(s) of the latest Kumasi Academy deaths has remained unknown, heightening the fears of parents and students… It has been a state of pandemonium at the Kumasi Academy following...