How FDA Disposed of Dangerous Drugs
Expired drugs at Tamale Hospital -These drugs when ingested have a tendency of causing harm to the body and can even lead to death. The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has discovered a truckload of...
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Prof Akosa Calls For Research Into Health Implications of Galamsey
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for research into the health implications of heavy metals used by illegal miners on the various...
Levy Alcohol To Fund NHIS
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made a proposal to government to levy tobacco and alcohol to fund the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). According to the Authority, the...
KATH Hit By Acute Shortage of Doctors, New Emergency Admissions Suspended
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has been hit by acute shortage of medical doctors, forcing the hospital authorities to prioritise only emergency cases. New emergency cases have...
Nursing and Midwifery Examination To Be Done Online From 2018
Licencing examination of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana will from July next year be conducted online. The new online system, according to the Council, is to ease the laborious processes...
Mothers of Children With Cerebral Palsy Given Respite
Mothers of children with cerebral palsy have been given a treat intended to make them relax and feel pampered. The mothers were taken through body massage, pedicure and manicure while they enjoyed a...
What You Must Know and Current Sanction Measures
The very common menace of open defecation in Ghana has been one of the most difficult societal ills to put an end to! The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly of the Western Region has begun a...
Reasons Why Rate of Infections Is On The Rise
The rate of HIV-AIDS in Ghana has taken a rise in recent times, with activists warning that the situation could get worse if nothing is done. According to available records, the number of Ghanaians...
Health Sector Finally Pays Heed To Massive Protest
Over 500 nurses employed upon agitation for financial clearance… The Ghanaian government finally paid heed to the laments and cries of the unemployed privately trained nurses who have been on a...
Four Dead After Eating Strange Fish In Volta Region
Four people have lost their lives in Alavanyo in the Volta Region while others have been hospitalized after eating a strange kind of fish. The Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital, in Kpando where the...
More Donations Pour In To Support First Lady’s SaveThemNow Project
The First Lady’s #SaveThemNow movement was inspired by a media documentation that exposed the deplorable and pathetic state of health care at the KATH maternity ward. Founder and Leader of the...
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...
Persons With Disability To Sue Over Unfriendly Building Accessibility
The Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations is threatening to sue public organisations for their failure to comply with the country’s disability act. Per the disability act , owners or...
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...
Ghana Making Progress In Malaria Fight – Survey
The 2016 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey report has been launched in Accra. The report shows Ghana is making progress in the fight against Malaria. However, a lot more needs to be done to achieve...
Malaria Prevalence Reduces Marginally
Malaria prevalence among children under age five has decreased from 27 per cent to 21 per cent. This is according to the 2016 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey which was conducted by the Ghana...
Ghana Making Progress In Malaria Fight
The 2016 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey report has been launched in Accra. The report shows Ghana is making progress in the fight against Malaria. However, a lot more needs to be done to achieve...
275 People Die of HIV-AIDS In Ashanti
Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Mr. Dennis Bandoh, the Regional Focal Person, who announced this, said late report to the health...
Prof Dodoo Appointed Head of Ghana Standards Authority
A clinical pharmacologist and pharmacist, with extensive experience in drug safety, vaccine safety, harmonisation initiatives, Professor Alexander Nii Oto Dodoo is the new head of the Ghana Standards...