Some midwives across the country have warned the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) against the continuous ‘illegal deductions’ of their salaries to an unknown body, which...
Despite the abundance of sanitary pads, some adolescent girls in some communities in the Northern Region continue to use rags during their menstrual cycle, whiles others have no or little knowledge...
After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – due to her fistula condition after her fifth birth, 40 years old Mma Fulera is now...
Popular Ghanaian songstress born Rebecca Akosua Acheampomaa Acheampong has admitted that music has not only shot her to fame but made her very rich. “I have had a lot of money from music. I would...
The Indian health ministry has confirmed its first cases of the Zika virus, the World Health Organisation has said, the latest nation to be affected by the mosquito-borne virus that sparked global...
The Canadian High Commissioner in Accra, Ms Heater Cameron, has cut the sod for the construction of an agro-processing factory at Kwaso in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region. The...
The World Food Programme (WFP has launched a five-year integrated agriculture and nutrition project to assist prevent malnutrition among children and pregnant women in Ghana. The project, known as...
The man behind the massively successful ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is facing major financial hurdles in his own fight against ALS. Pete Frates lies on life support in the bedroom of his house with his...
Doctors at the three medical facilities handling the victims of the May 9, 2017, Takoradi gas explosion are struggling to take care of some of them, as a result of the lack of critical care units in...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it is working with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to discourage growers who use polluted sources of irrigation. A Joy News documentary last week...
The Central Regional police commander, DCOP David Ampah Bennin, has emphatically stated that some people have threatened to burn down the Kotokuraba Market if they (people) suspect any bias in the...
Over five hundred unemployed veterinary technicians have threatened to picket at the Ministry of Agriculture to push for their immediate engagement by government. Their threat comes less than 24...
Student nurses who get pregnant while in nursing training colleges can now have their babies while in school. This is because the regulation that bars them from getting pregnant while undertaking...
Student nurses who get pregnant while in nursing training colleges can now have their babies while in school. This is because the regulation that bars them from getting pregnant while undertaking...
Why we need to urgently stop taxing womanhood During adolescence, boys and girls go through stages of cognitive, psychological and physical growth and development. For girls or women, one of the most...
The Ministry of Health has said that fulfilling the demands of health professionals who picket does not put them in a subservient position. The Deputy Minister of Health, Tina Mensah, made this known...
The first large-scale clinical trial of a cannabis derivative known as cannabidiol shows it was able to cut the frequency of severe epileptic seizures by 39 percent, researchers said Wednesday....
There are stories of pregnant women forcefully delivering pre-maturely in order to sit an exam The Health Ministry has suspended a regulation barring pregnant students of Nursing Training colleges...
It has emerged that some nurses at the medical facility which serves as the referral centre for residents at Adeiso and its environs, are trading in the sale of drugs to patients who come to the...
A group of health professionals who picketed at the Health Ministry have called off their two-day protest after receiving financial clearance by the ministry. The group made up of unposted Allied...
