Dr. Eugene Dordoye has been removed as the medical director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, a decision taken by the Ministry of Health Friday to end the longstanding impasse that has affected...
Staff of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital who are on a collision course with their director say they will boycott a scheduled meeting with the Health Minister today to attempt a resolution of the impasse...
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...
The Chief Executive Officer for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Dr. Samuel Annor has called on Labour Unions to consider supporting the health scheme with one percent of their...
Health Minister Dr. Kwaku Agyeman Manu says the government hopes to find resources for the National Health Insurance Scheme to cover treatment for other forms of cancer, particularly prostrate and...
Reactions are sharply divided between the Majority and Minority on the president’s State of the Nation address. Key amongst the issues is operation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)....
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,...
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...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has served notice it would petition Parliament over the National Health Insurance Authority’s plans to increase the levy on the salaries of...
The Ghana Trades Union Congress has warned the current system of financing the National Health Insurance Scheme could lead to its collapse. Deputy General-Secretary of the TUC, Joshua Ansah, says the...
The Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya Naa Andani Yakubu has called for the immediate inclusion of mental illness in the National Health Insurance Scheme to improve access to medications by the mentally...
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for research into the health implications of heavy metals used by illegal miners on the various...
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made a proposal to government to levy tobacco and alcohol to fund the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). According to the Authority, the...
Ghana Public Health Association (GPHA) has urged the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to immediately roll out preparedness and response plans countrywide, in anticipation of a possible cholera outbreak....
The immediate past Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia, has said his administration will not accept responsibility for the current woes of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). According to...
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has admitted he is not in position to assure NHIS service providers when arrears owed them would be paid by government. He however maintained that nine...
The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has told Parliament, he is unsure when arrears of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) would be settled. According to him, the scheme owes health...
Three days after a sit-down strike, staff and student nurses of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra Region yesterday embarked on a demonstration to demand the occupied portions of lands...
Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have begun an industrial action, which will see workers not doing any work though reporting to work. The sit-down strike is in protest to the mass...
Government is to hold a national stakeholders forum to find sustained solutions to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Minister of Health, Mr. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has announced. “It’s...
