NHIS In Seven Months Arrears
Service Providers, under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), say they are on the verge of returning to cash-and-carry to save their health facilities from shutting down due to huge...
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Open Defecation – A Lingering Eyesore
“It’s in the early hours of the day. A young man squats a few steps away from his house. His neighbour suggests to him: “massa, go into the bush a little”. His response: “come and push me...
Over 8,000 Nurses, Other Health Workers Cleared For Employment
Over 8,000 nurses will soon be employed by the government following a financial clearance by the Ministry of Finance A letter released by the Ministry of Finance has indicated that a total of 8,634...
World’s First Malaria Immunisation To Begin In 2018
The world's first malaria vaccine immunisation campaign is to commence in 2018 and funds for the phase one of the pilot deployment of the vaccine in Sub-Saharan Africa had been secured. A release by...
Fighting High Blood Pressure – the Silent Killer
Heart disease is the deadliest chronic disease in the world. Rapid urbanization in low- and middle-income countries is a contributing factor – migration from rural to urban areas is associated with...
Health Ministry Cleared To Recruit 8,634 New Personnel
The Finance Ministry has granted financial clearance to the Health Ministry for the recruitment of 8,634 health care personnel to provide health care at varying levels across the country. Of the...
Gov’t To Employ Over 8,000 Nurses and Midwives
Government has given financial clearance for the employment of 8,634 nurses and midwives as well as other allied personnel for the various health facilities across the country. The recruitment...
Gov’t Clears Over 8,000 Nurses, Midwives, Others To Be Employed
Government has given financial clearance for the employment of 8,634 nurses and midwives as well as other allied personnel for the various health facilities across the country. The recruitment...
Hepatitis B Patients Suffer Depression
A public health specialist, Mr. Charles Ampong Adjei has revealed that women who test positive for hepatitis B infection suffer psychological and social afflictions including depression, anxiety, and...
3 Out of 4 Practise Open Defecation
The Upper East Region recorded the highest open defecation in Ghana with a percentage of 74.7 according to the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of 2014. This was revealed in Bolgatanga at the...
Health Service Warns of Dengue Fever
The Ghana Health Service has issued an emergency health alert, following an outbreak of a fever known as the dengue fever in Burkina Faso. “The Ghana Health Service has received notification and...
Serving And Reaching Out
If we have no peace in this world, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to one another. Most at times, deaf people are sidelined even by Charity Organizations trying to reach out to people...
Autism In Ghana
The Republic of Ghana has a total surface area of 238, 837 square kilometres, extending inland on the western bulge of Africa from the Gulf of Guinea. It is bordered by Cote d’Ivore to the west,...
Zika Virus ‘no Longer An Emergency’
The mosquito-borne Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared. By lifting its nine-month-old declaration, the UN's...
Swedru Hospital Observes World Preterm Day
The Agona Swedru Municipal Hospital in the Central Region on Thursday observed the world prematurity day to raise awareness of pre-term birth and the concerns of pre-term babies and their families....
Accountant Hot For Slashing ‘temporary’ Trainee Nurses Allowance
The Ministry of Health has asked one Bismark Duadua Mahama, an accountant at the Kumasi Nurses and Midwifery Training College to step aside, for reducing the temporary restored allowances meant for...
Accountant Hot For Slashing ‘temporary’ Trainee Nurses Allowance
The Ministry of Health has asked one Bismark Duadua Mahama, an accountant at the Kumasi Nurses and Midwifery Training College to step aside, for reducing the temporary restored allowances meant for...
Amissah-Arthur Assures of Massive Job Creation In Health Sector
Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has given the assurance that, the health sector would witness a massive job creation in the next term of the Mahama led administration. He disclosed that the...
Gov’t’s ‘restored Allowance’ Confusing
The Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees’ Association (GNMTA), says government is attempting to throw dust into their eyes by commencing what it calls the payment of cancelled allowances in another...
Veep Assures of Massive Jobs In Health Sector
Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has given the assurance that, the health sector would witness a massive job creation in the next term of the Mahama-led administration. He disclosed that,...