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Ankaful Psychiatric Nurses To Boycott Meeting With Health Minister

Staff of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital who are on a collision course with their director say they will boycott a...

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WhatsApp Platform Helps To Reduce Maternal Mortality

The usage of WhatsApp, a social media platform, has contributed to the effort of reducing institutional maternal...

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Support NHIA With 1% Of Your Earnings – NHIA CEO To Labour

The Chief Executive Officer for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Dr. Samuel Annor has called on Labour...

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NHIS To Cover Prostrate and Child Cancers

Health Minister Dr. Kwaku Agyeman Manu says the government hopes to find resources for the National Health Insurance...

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SONA 2018: NHIS Funding Stirs Debate Between Majority, Minority

Reactions are sharply divided between the Majority and Minority on the president’s State of the Nation address. Key...

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USAID Supports Transformation of Private Maternity Homes In Ghana

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners have celebrated the transformation of...

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Committee of Experts To Promote Medical Tourism Inaugurated

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) Council, on Tuesday inaugurated a five-member Committee of Experts to promote medical...

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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...

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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...

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Regent of Dagbon Vows To Protect Rights of Mental Health Patients

The Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya Naa Andani Yakubu has called for the immediate inclusion of  mental illness in the...

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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...

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Levy Alcohol To Fund NHIS

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made a proposal to government to levy tobacco and alcohol to fund...

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GHA Cautioned Against Cholera Outbreak

Ghana Public Health Association (GPHA) has urged the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to immediately roll out preparedness...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Nurses Hit Streets With ‘Yegye Y’asaase Demo

Three days after a sit-down strike, staff and student nurses of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra...

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Pantang Staff Begin Sit-Down Strike; Threaten To Hit Streets If…

Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have begun an industrial action, which will see workers not doing any work...

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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...