Illegal Mining and Kidney Failure
Medical personnel at the Central Regional hospital have observed that there is an obvious link between illegal mining and kidney failure. This disclosure was made by the hospital authorities after...
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Couple Demands Justice, Corpse of Babies Killed By Medical Negligence In 2010
A couple who lost their twin babies at the Tema General Hospital in 2010 as a result of alleged negligence have renewed their demand for justice and the bodies of the babies for burial. Their 2010...
Opposition Fears NPP’s New Directive May Flop
Following government’s decision to re-introduce the nursing trainee allowance scheme, it is also making plans to re-introduce the Nursing Trainee Quota system for nursing training institutions. The...
Picketing Escalates To Cooking And Sleeping At Health Ministry
The Coalition for Unemployed Private Nurses Association has been on a picketing spree for the past few days, over their unemployment. These nurses who say they have been discriminated against since...
‘I’m Still At Post’ – PNC’s Atik Mohammed Insists
The suspended General Secretary of the People’s National Congress (PNC), Atik Mohammed is insisting he is still at post. The National Executive Committee of the party suspended Atik after a meeting...
Kwaku Kwarteng Goofed On GHC5.2m Ghana@60 Funds
Financial analyst, Sydney Casely Hayford believes that deputy Finance Minister, Kwaku Kwarteng was unprepared for Parliament’s queries on the Independence Anniversary celebrations, thus providing...
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 the current woes of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). According to...
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 arrears owed them would be paid by government. He however maintained that nine...
We Had A Plan To Clear GHc100m NHIS Debt – Alex Segbefia
Former Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia has said the Mahama government had a strategy to clear the GHc100 million debt in the health sector that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is...
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 Manu was unprepared when he appeared before Parliament on Thursday to respond to...
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 Scheme (NHIS) would be settled. According to him, the scheme owes health...
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 Region yesterday embarked on a demonstration to demand the occupied portions of lands...
Fast-Growing Pakistan Aims To Raise Contraception Use
Pakistan will raise the rate of contraception use to at least 50 percent within the next three years, the health minister has said, in a bid to help control its fast-growing population. Observers...
Edward Mahama Should’ve Rejected ‘NPP Job’
The National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah says the party’s Flagbearer in the 2016 election should have rejected the ambassadorial appointment offered him...
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 million Ghana Cedis has been allocated to the NHIS which has struggled in...
‘Accra Psychiatric Hospital Soon To Shutdown’
Accra Psychiatric Hospital may soon shut down due to lack of funds, Chief Executive Mental Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned. The limited inflow of income from...
Accra Psychiatric Hospital May Soon Shut Down
The Accra Psychiatric Hospital may soon shut down due to lack of funds, Chief Executive Mental Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei has cautioned. The limited inflow of income from...
DR Congo Declares End of Ebola Outbreak
The Congolese health minister on Saturday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak in a remote northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo which caused four deaths in the area. On May 12,...
New WHO Director From Ethiopia Begins Work
The new director general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom, took over managing the UN health agency on Saturday, the WHO said. A specialist in malaria, Tedros served as health minister...
Sri Lanka Blames Garbage Pile-Up For Record Dengue Toll
Sri Lanka has suffered a record 200 deaths from dengue fever this year, the health minister said Monday, blaming a garbage disposal crisis in Colombo. Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts...