Ghana joined the rest of the world to mark malaria day which falls on April 25, haven chalked significant successes over the last few years. Malaria prevalence reduced from 50% in 2002 to 20.4...
First Lady Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called on corporate Ghana to support the fight against malaria, a disease that killed 1,037 only last year. She said “studies have shown that nine working days...
Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has appealed to corporate organizations in the country to assist in the fight against malaria to help boost productivity and subsequently economic growth....
The Public Accounts Committee(PAC) of Parliament will resume sitting on Tuesday through to 28 of this month at Parliament house and institutions including the central bank, Ministry of Food and...
The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), in collaboration with the Latter-Day Saint Charities and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has organised a one-week training programme for maternal and neonatal...
Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah, the Executive Director of the National Population Council has called for intensified sex education for teenagers to protect them against pregnancy and sexually transmitted...
Physician assistant interns in the country have threatened to embark on a strike if they are not put on the payroll for the job they do at the various health facilities across the country. They said...
According to the 2015 World Malaria Report, there were 214 million cases of malaria recorded globally in that year. The report states that malaria cases, (uncertainty range 149–303 million) and...
Dr Kwasi Antwi, Secretary of the Society of Private Health Providers in the Ashanti Region, has said service providers cannot rejoice over the assurances given by government to pay their arrears by...
Government has announced that all arrears owed service providers of National Health Insurance Authorities (NHIS) will be settled in by close of April 2017 “Let me take this opportunity to announce...
The government has announced that it will pay all amounts owed providers under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by the end of April, 2017. Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, who revealed...
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has directed that the recruitment of casual health workers should cease forthwith. At the 2017 Health Summit in Kumasi, Mr Agyemang Manu said all...
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has assured its service providers that the agency will soon start making monthly payments to enhance their liquidity so service quality may improve....
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has assured its service providers that the agency will soon start making monthly payments to enhance their liquidity to ensure an improvement in...
Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu, the Minister of Health has launched an improved facilitating technology known as the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS2) Dashboard, for programme tracking...
The Asokore-Mampong District Court, presided over Mrs Portia Molly Anafo Salia, has remanded into police custody eight people suspected to be members of a gang that has been defrauding the state of...
Dr Franklin Asiedu Bekoe, the Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has cautioned media practitioners to desist from publishing unsubstantiated statistics on deaths...
Speculations have been ongoing as to the cause of the death of four students of the Kumasi Academy which many deemed ‘mysterious’ due to the nature of the deaths. Among the very many guessed...
Authorities of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACAS) have suspended all school activities and sent all the students home. This decision by the authorities follows the death of some four...
Simon Osei-Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Minister, has announced a massive health education and surveillance to help save lives and curtail the upsurge of Meningitis in the Ashanti Region. This comes...
