St Petersburg Metro Explosion Kills 10
Ten people have been killed in an explosion between two underground stations in St Petersburg. The head of Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the blast hit a train between Sennaya...
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Government To Build Infectious Diseases Hospital At Nsawam
The government is working in collaboration with the Global Fund to build a $1 million modern infectious disease hospital at Nsawam in the Eastern Region. The objective is to contain the threat of a...
Alarm As Measles Spreads Across Europe
Measles is making its way across Europe at an alarming rate, shocking new figures reveal. Cases of the highly contagious infection have tripled in Italy so far this year, while Romania has also...
Israeli Firm Interested In Completing Maternity, Children’s Block
An Israeli firm, Mitrelli Group of companies, has expressed interest in completing the abandoned Maternity and Children’s block project at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. The Israeli Company...
Malaysia Says Kim Jong-Nam’s Body Still In KL Morgue
Six weeks after the airport assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, Malaysia on Tuesday said it was still waiting for family to claim the body, denying rumours it had been sent back to Pyongyang. The...
My Appointment Was Politically Terminated – Offei-Palm Recounts
The reinstated President of Korle Bu Senior Staff Association (KOSSA) Charles Offei-Palm has alleged that his interdiction and subsequent termination of appointment was politically motivated....
I Was Politically Terminated At Korle Bu
The reinstated President of Korle Bu Senior Staff Association (KOSSA) Charles Offei-Palm has alleged that his interdictions and subsequent termination from post was politically motivated by some...
South Africa To Introduce Hour Sex Breaks At Work
In South Africa, Leaving work to get laid could actually become a legal right in South Africa if politicians gets his way, reports mzansilive, a South African blog. According to Aaron Motsoaledi, the...
Health Minister Orders GHS To Resume Posting
The trainee nurses recruitment according to the Minister of Health, includes only those who where granted financial clearance in December, 2016. The Ghana Health Service (GHS), has resumed the...
UNICEF Decries Sale of Cambodian Breast Milk To US Mothers
UNICEF on Wednesday condemned a company selling breast milk from "vulnerable and poor" Cambodian mothers to Americans, hitting out at the commercialisation of nutrients needed by babies inside the...
Nurses Can Now Get Jobs – Government Gives Green Light
Health professionals whose recruitment was halted following a change in power can now expect to be employed by the Ghana Health Service. In a memo dated March 20, 2017, the Health minister Kwaku...
Government Clears Health Workers For Recruitment
The Health Minister granted approval for recruitment of trainees and other health professionals Finally, clearance has been given for the recruitment of nurses and other health professionals who were...
96% of Ghanaian Adults Have Gum Diseases
At least 96% of adults in Ghana within ages 35-44 years are affected by gum diseases, while another 40% of 12-year-olds suffer from decayed, missing teeth, stained teeth and bad breath. These...
Tanzania To Send 500 Doctors To Kenya To Help Cover Strike
Tanzania will send 500 doctors to Kenya to help overcome the effects of a strike in public hospitals, the Tanzanian president's office said on Saturday,18th March 2017. Kenya's doctors went on strike...
Ghana Launches National Alcohol Policy
Ghana has launched a National Alcohol Policy after years of working with key stakeholders to combine the fragmented laws that exist on the production, distribution sale, advertisement and consumption...
Over 200 Trainee Nurses Picket At Health Ministry; Protest Ban On Employment
Over 200 trainee nurses have besieged the premises of the Health Ministry demanding the suspension of a freeze on hiring. The chanting nurses who came from different parts of the country for the...
$70m Needed To Complete 1974 KATH Maternity Building
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) needs $70million to complete a magnificent Maternity block began in 1974 and believed to be key in easing fatal congestion at the hospital. Officials say at...
Kenya Doctors End 100-Day Strike
Doctors in Kenya have agreed to end a 100-day strike that has paralysed the country’s public health system. Union officials representing thousands of striking medical workers have signed an...
700 Dead As Malaria ‘epidemic’ Hits Burundi
About 700 people have died from malaria in Burundi so far this year, the health minister said, with the authorities having registered 1.8 million infections in a rising epidemic. "Burundi faces a...
KATH Appeals To Gov’t To Complete 37-Yr Old Paediatric Unit
Doctors at the Paediatric Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, have pleaded with government to see to the completion of the abandoned Maternity and Paediatric block. The...