Health economics
Over 500 Canadian Doctors Protest Raises, Say They’re Being Paid Too Much
In Canada, more than 500 doctors and residents, as well as over 150 medical students, have signed a public letter...
NHIA Debts: Cash and Carry Will Return Soon
The National Communications and Operations Director of the Health Insurance Service Providers Association of Ghana,...
ICU To Storm Parliament Over 1% NHIS Levy Increment
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has served notice it would petition Parliament over the National...
TUC Tasks NHIA To Come Out With Innovative Strategies To Sustain Scheme
The Ghana Trades Union Congress has warned the current system of financing the National Health Insurance Scheme could...
Prof Akosa Calls For Research Into Health Implications of Galamsey
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for research into...
Levy Alcohol To Fund NHIS
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made a proposal to government to levy tobacco and alcohol to fund...
NHIA Capitation Programme Suspended In Ashanti Region
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has suspended the capitation programme in the Ashanti region with effect...
46 Graduate With Masters In Public Health At Ensign College
Ensign College of Public health, located at Kpong in the Eastern region and affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah Universitg...
Ofosu Kwakye Accuses Senior Minister of Inciting Ashantis Against NDC
A former Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has described the notion by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Mafo...
NDC Can’t Be Blamed For NHIS Debt – Alex Segbefia
The immediate past Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia, has said his administration will not accept responsibility for...
Minister Not Sure When Arrears Owed NHIS Providers Would Be Paid
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has admitted he is not in position to assure NHIS service providers when...
Health Minister Was Unprepared For Parliament’s Questions
The Member of Parliament for Wa West, Joseph Yieleh Chireh has suggested that the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman...
I’m Uncertain When NHIS Arrears Will Be Cleared
The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has told Parliament, he is unsure when arrears of the National Health Insurance...
Decades of Trying, But Health Reform Remains Elusive In US
The United States, entangled in conflict overseas and struggling economically, was at a fraught moment when the...
Gov’t To Organise Stakeholders’ Forum On Health Insurance
Government is to hold a national stakeholders forum to find sustained solutions to the National Health Insurance Scheme...
Parliament Approves GHc2.2m For NHIS
Parliament has approved the formula for the disbursement of the National Health Insurance Fund for 2017. A total of 2.2...
Schools Warned Over Classrooms Without Light
Deputy Director of Public Health in the Greater Accra Region, Dr. John Eleeza, has warned that the continuous...
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...
YALI Screens People of Nandom
Participants at the 2017 Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) programme have organised a Hepatitis B and C screening...