National Service Postings Out
The management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has deployed the first batch of 91, 871 prospective national service personnel for the 2017/18 service year to user agencies across the country....
Tag: Health care
Managers Urged To Ensure Annual Medical Examination of Staff
The Head of the Occupational Health and Safety Department of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, Akofa Adika-Bensah, has called on managers of business entities and labour unions to institute annual...
Schools Warned Over Classrooms Without Light
Deputy Director of Public Health in the Greater Accra Region, Dr. John Eleeza, has warned that the continuous construction of poorly lighted classrooms would result in the mass of students suffering...
Scrap Bonding of Trainee Nurses
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, has backed calls for bonding of trainee nurses by government to be scrapped. Nurses trained in public health institutions...
Direct Relief, Breast Care Donate Live-Saving Drugs To 20 Health Facilities
Life- saving assorted medications valued at $4.3 Million have been distributed to more than twenty health Institutions across the country, the fourth successive act of charity since January 2017,...
Wealth, Poverty Propping Up Pakistan’s Illegal Kidney Trade
When Pakistani authorities burst into a makeshift hospital in Lahore this year, doctors were caught mid-way through two illegal kidney transplants, the local donors and Omani clients still...
Nursing Training School Students Threaten Demo
The students of the Tanoso Community Health and Nursing Training School (CHNTS) near Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region have threatened to embark on a demonstration against the school’s authorities...
Tens of Thousands Stranded By Sri Lanka Doctors’ Strike
Tens of thousands of patients have been left in the lurch by a doctor-led strike at Sri Lanka's state-run hospitals, a consumer rights group said on Saturday. The Government Medical Officers...
Captain Smart Unveiled As Ambulance Service Ambassador
Broadcast Journalist, Captain Smart has been unveiled as Ambassador for the Ghana National Ambulance Service’s ‘Operation Save a Soul’ campaign. Captain Smart, who also hosts Adom FM’s...
Tamale Teaching Hosp. Management Rubbish ‘cash & Carry’ Untruths
Management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital has refuted claims that patience are made to pay before healthcare is delivered. A group calling itself Coalition for Change in Government Institutions on...
China: Teacher In Trouble After Suffocating Child To Death
A nursery school girl was suffocated to death by her teacher, who taped her mouth shut for being too talkative. According to a report by the Daily Mirror, the victim Guo Jintong was talking too much...
‘Quack Radiographers Could Cause Cancer’
Mr Prince Rockson, the National President of the Ghana Society of Radiographers (GSR), said wrong usage of radiation on the body could cause cancer and that some cancers being suffered by individuals...
Unqualified Radiographers Could Be Responsible For People’s Cancer’
Mr Prince Rockson, the National President of the Ghana Society of Radiographers (GSR), said wrong usage of radiation on the body could cause cancer and that some cancers being suffered by individuals...
CHPS Compounds To Go Digital For E-Health Services
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds and other primary health facilities across the nation are to be digitized to facilitate the deployment of e-health services to enhance...
Wenchi Hospital Records High Urological Cases
Wenchi Methodist hospital has recorded an increase in cases of prostate related diseases for the past year. Records from the Urological department of the hospital indicates that Benign Prostatic...
Kaiser Launches Ayarisa To Give Healthcare When You Need It
Following the growing dependency of the Ghanaian market on smart mobile technology as well as the poor access to quality healthcare, Kaiser Global Health Limited, has developed an innovative...
Kaiser Launches ‘Ayarisa’ To Provide Healthcare To Ghanaians
Kaiser Global Health Limited has launched Ayarisa, a novel product that offers health insurance services using the mobile phone as a primary enabler. Ayarisa utilises mobile technology to extend...
We Can’t Arrest Tepa Nursing & Midwifery Training College Principal Now
The Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Health Robert Cudjoe has indicated that its highly impossible for his outfit to arrest the Principal of Tepa Nursing and Training College Madam...
BECE Candidate Gives Birth Moments After ICT Paper
A very determined teenager, who did not want to truncate her schooling due to pregnancy, managed to finish with the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) paper, in the on-going Basic...
We Will Hold Government Accountable In Health Sector
The Health sector Non State Actors have pledged to ensure accountability and improvement in the health sector to enhance standards of living. The Non State Actors is a group of Civil Society and...