In Canada, more than 500 doctors and residents, as well as over 150 medical students, have signed a public letter protesting their own pay raises. “We, Quebec doctors who believe in a strong public...
A bashful couple are hiring a nanny to give their children ‘the talk’ because they can’t face doing it themselves. The parents, from Bath, placed an advertisement on Childcare.co.uk for a...
A fertility specialist with the Accra Fertility Centre has advised married couples with fertility problems to first seek medical solutions in their quest to bear children. According to Dr. Nana...
I almost died after giving birth to my daughter, Olympia. Yet I consider myself fortunate. While I had a pretty easy pregnancy, my daughter was born by emergency C-section after her heart rate...
Government has started the process to secure financial clearance to engage publicly trained nurses who ended their training in 2016, a deputy minister has disclosed. “The Ministry has taken their...
Europe has seen a big surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016. Cases increased four-fold, with more than 20,000...
The Board Chairman of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Hackman Owusu Agyemang, has hinted that COCOBOD is instituting measures to ensure that the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital at Akuapem Mampong in...
Scientists have taken the first steps towards what they say could become a new blood and urine test for autism. Their study tested children with and without the condition and found higher levels of...
Dr. Eugene Dordoye has been removed as the medical director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, a decision taken by the Ministry of Health Friday to end the longstanding impasse that has affected...
Staff of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital who are on a collision course with their director say they will boycott a scheduled meeting with the Health Minister today to attempt a resolution of the impasse...
Mentally ill persons have taken over the streets of Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis in the Western Region, raising concerns about the safety of pedestrians and road users. Residents say one is likely to...
Nurses and physician assistants at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have decided to stay away from work with immediate effect. In what they describe as “removal” from...
Mr Mathew Kyeremeh, Registrar at the Health Facilities Regulation Agency (HEFRA), of the Ministry of Health, on Tuesday warned unregistered health institutions to regularize their activities or face...
The National Health Insurance Authority is proposing a special tax on sugar-sweetened and alcoholic beverages as additional source of funding for the National Health Insurance Scheme. The new levy...
The National Communications and Operations Director of the Health Insurance Service Providers Association of Ghana, (HISPAG), Joseph Christian Amoah has warned that some Health facilities that accept...
The Special Mothers Project, an advocacy and awareness creation programme on cerebral palsy issues, has supported five institutions and some individuals with mobility equipment. The beneficiary...
Medical doctors at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua are alarmed over increasing death cases related to stroke, HIV, Pneumonia and heart related diseases in the region. Other prominent...
Sustained adolescent health education campaign mounted by the Kumasi Metropolitan Health Directorate to help bring down teenage pregnancy is paying off. Dr. Mrs. Alberta Biritwum Nyarko, the...
Health Minister Dr. Kwaku Agyeman Manu says the government hopes to find resources for the National Health Insurance Scheme to cover treatment for other forms of cancer, particularly prostrate and...
As the world marked World Cancer Day on February 4, 2018, Dr Kwabena Twum-Nuamah, a legislator, has called for the strengthening of early diagnosis at all levels of the health system to reduce the...
