Prioritize Quality Healthcare
The government has been asked to make access to quality healthcare a major priority on its development agenda. Mr. Archibald Adams, Coordinator, Universal Access Healthcare Campaign (UAHCC), a local...
Tag: Ghana Health Service
Shortcomings of the Professional Association of Herbal Medicine Practitioners (GAMH) (Part I)
Prior to the introduction of the professional practice of herbal medicine, made possible by way of formal education/training in Ghana through the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...
All You Need To Know About Akufo-Addo’s Staff For Flagstaff House
Ghana’s president-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday announced nine persons he would be working with as his core staff at the Flagstaff House in Accra from January 7 when he takes over...
Group Urges NPP To Resuscitate NHIS
The incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has been urged to put in place the necessary mechanisms to resuscitate the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) which some say has not been...
NHIA Inaugurates Claims Payment Software
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has inaugurated a Claims Payment Software to facilitate the smooth and early payment of claims to service providers. The move comes at a time when the...
Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Records Low Post-Natal Attendance
Post-natal care attendance is very low at health facilities in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the Northern Region. The district Disease Control Officer, Thomas Suuri, described as worrying...
Media Urged To Subject DLT Reports To Thorough Review
The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and UNICEF have held an engagement with the media on reporting effectively on the District League Table (DLT) to generate the desired responses...
Esi Partners UNFPA To Fight Teenage Pregnancy
The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) office in Ghana is to collaborate with the Pempamsie Foundation, a non-governmental organization founded by 2015 winner of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful,...
Gov’t Under Pressure To Recruit More Biomedical Scientists
The Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists (GABMLS) has called on government to “as a matter of urgency” grant clearance for the recruitment of licenced medical laboratory...
25 Youth Graduate In Vocational Training In Navrongo
Twenty-five people have been trained in batik, tie and dye, soap making, beads making, dress making and Information Communication Technology (ICT) vocational at Navrongo in the Upper East Region. The...
JICA Signs MoU With Two Health Bodies
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Tuesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) for the continuous...
500 Cholera Cases Recorded In Central Region
About 500 persons have been affected by cholera since its outbreak in the Central Region a month ago, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed. According to the service, no death has been...
Cape Coast Cholera Outbreak Toll Increases To 400
Health authorities in the Cape Coast are still battling with cholera cases even as they attempt to ban food vending on the campus of the University of Cape Coast. Over 400 people have been affected...
Cerebral Palsy Management Must Be Holistic – Dr Badoe
Dr Ebenezer Badoe, a Neuro-Peadiatrician at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has reiterated the need to implement a multidisciplinary working method in managing cerebral palsy patients. He explained...
Mahama Isn’t the Problem. Our Hypocrisy Is!
MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Mahama isn’t the problem. Our hypocrisy is! ast weekend, President John Dramani Mahama stirred the dangerous beehive of ethnicity. And he got himself deadly verbal stings from...
Patient Sues 37 Military Hospital, 6 Doctors & GHS
A patient has sued six medical doctors, the 37 Military Hospital, the Attorney General and the Ghana Health Service for medical negligence. The action by the plaintiff, Mr Wisdom Tettey Narh, comes...
Health Ministry Commences Employment of Graduate Trainee Nurses
Health Ministry commences employment, following the clearance of the graduate health trainees by the Finance Ministry The Ministry of Health has released an approval for the employment of health...
Global Heath Leaders and Experts Agree New Course For SDGs
Global Heath Leaders and Experts meeting in Shanghai, have agreed a new health promotion course in the sustainable development goals to guide national governments for next 15 years in . In...
Ghana Risks Dengue Fever; Precautionary Measures Activated
Ghana has enhanced its health surveillance and initiated precautionary measures against the outbreak of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical disease that causes high fever and joint pains among...
Fighting High Blood Pressure – the Silent Killer
Heart disease is the deadliest chronic disease in the world. Rapid urbanization in low- and middle-income countries is a contributing factor – migration from rural to urban areas is associated with...