health
Tuberculosis Outbreak Looms As Bacteria Grow Drug-Resistant
Ghana faces imminent Tuberculosis outbreak as the country is recording increasing numbers of emerging transmission of...
Virginia Set To Execute Man Using ‘potentially Tortuous’ Drug Cocktail
Virginia is preparing to kill a 32-year-old man using a controversial lethal injection formula that may have subjected...
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...
First Lady Calls For Support For Adolescent Reproductive Health
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called for the need for a resolute and cooperative leadership comprising the...
16 Mental Patients Forced To Fast In Chains Rescued
A total of 16 mentally deranged persons who were chained to trees for years and forced to fast to fast with no or...
Scrap Bonding of Trainee Nurses
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, has backed calls for bonding of trainee...
Teachers Lack Resources For Reproductive Health Education – Survey
A study conducted on Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) in Ghana has revealed that teachers lacked the requisite...
Gov’t To Develop -3year Strategic Plan For Water, Sanitation – Adda
Joseph Kofi Adda, Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, has disclosed that Government says it will in the coming...
San Francisco’s New Rodent Cafe
The rodent-borne bubonic plague may seem unappetizing, but for a few San Francisco visionaries, it proved just the...
Akufo-Addo’s Daughters Join Forces With Glam Africa To Support Children With Autism
Three sisters, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, Valerie Obaze, and Edwina Akufo-Addo, with diverse experiences and skills, have...
Each Region To Get Two Waste Treatment Plants – Sanitation Minister Hints
Ghana has been grappling with waste management over the years owing to indiscriminate disposal of refuse and poor waste...
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...
Direct Relief, Breast Care Donate Live-Saving Drugs To 20 Health Facilities
Life- saving assorted medications valued at $4.3 Million have been distributed to more than twenty health...
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...
Advanced Prosthetic Arms Developed By Pentagon Set For Sale
Fred Downs, a 72-year-old Vietnam war veteran, remembers fighting back tears when he regained the ability to pick up...
Akufo-Addo’s Daughters Join Glam Africa To Support Children With Autism
Three sisters, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, Valerie Obaze, and Edwina Akufo-Addo, with diverse experiences and skills, have...
Gov’t To Build Two Waste Management Plants All Regions
The government has revealed plans to build two waste management plants in all ten regions of the country to improve...
China Bans ‘time-Bomb’ Toothpick Crossbows
Chinese authorities have raided toy shops across the country to enforce a ban on a handheld crossbow popular with...