Ghana’s NHIS Is the Best In Africa
President John Mahama has hailed Ghana’s health insurance scheme, describing it as the best on the African continent. According to him, some of the services offered by the NHIS are unrivaled, even...
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200 Mental Patients To Be Released Today
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, has said a lot has been done by the government and the Ministry of Health to mitigate the plight of healthcare delivery...
Mental Health Issues Betray Our Lack of Humanity – Baako
Ghana’s lack of attention to mental health issues points to its “lack of humanity”, New Crusading Guide Editor Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako has said. His comment follows the declaration of a strike...
GHAMHA Seeks Gov’t Help To End Strike Action
The Ghana National Mental Health Alliance (GHAMHA) has called on the Minister of Health to take keen interest in the ongoing strike action by the management and staff of the Accra Psychiatric...
Residents Indifference Attitude Towards Sanitation Very Worrying
Mr Sam Ayeh-Datey, Coordinating Director of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has expressed concern about the apathy being shown by some residents of Accra towards the National Sanitation Day...
LaNMMA Fines More Shop Owners
Fifteen shop owners were on Saturday arrested and fined by a joint Sanitation Taskforce in the La-Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality (LaNMMA)for undertaking business activities, whilst the National...
Kenyan Experts Root For Deterrent Measures To Root Out Graft
Deterrent measures including lengthy prison terms for those accused of corruption are key to eradicating the vice in Kenya, experts have said. Acknowledging corruption as a threat to Kenya’s...
A Cry At Noon, Accra Psychiatric Hospital’s Blues!
From Monday, October 31, 2016 to Friday, November 4, 2016, I was stationed at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital reporting for both 3FM and Onua FM, TV3’s radio stations. The nurses at the facility...
Mental Health Crisis
GHANA’S mental health system is currently on its knees as nurses at the biggest mental health facility, Accra Psychiatric Hospital, have embarked on an exercise dubbed #StayAwayFromDanger in...
Understanding Your Prostate Pathology Report
I was very happy when a woman called me concerning her husband’s prostate cancer. She happens to know everything about his prostate cancer including Gleason score and I was amazed. She was very...
Amissah-Arthur Fears Future Implication of Restoring Nurses’ Allowance
Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur is pointing to a possible bleak future if the allowance for student nurses is reintroduced by government. Addressing student nurses at the Nalerigu...
Ideal Food For Your Baby
Breast milk is the Ideal Food for Your Baby. By Abundant Robert K. AWOLUGUTU A newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the...
Over 500 SMEs To Benefit From Financial and Technical Support
Over 500 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector are to benefit from financial and technical support to enhance their operation. This is...
Restoring Nurses’ Allowance Will Jeopardize Future of Ghana
Restoring fully, the allowances of nursing trainees will threaten the future of Ghana's economy, Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has said. Speaking at the Nalerigu Nursing and Midwifery...
Veep Defends Gov’t’s Decision To Withdraw Teachers & Nurses Trainee Allowances
Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has strongly defended government’s decision to withdraw teachers and nurses’ trainee allowances. Speaking at the Nalerigu Nursing and Midwifery College and the...
‘family Planning Adviser’ Claims Contraception Causes ‘sex Addiction’
A ‘family planning’ adviser to the Polish government has claimed contraception can lead to ‘sex addiction’ and make people more likely to cheat. Professor Urszula Dudziak from the Catholic...
Accra Graves To Be Recycled
In the wake of overcrowding in our public cemeteries and the scarcity of land in Accra for the creation of new ones, the Metro Public Health Department (MPHD) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA)...
Nutritional Mainstream Commerce In Ghana
Four years ago, a business consultant from Project Peanut Butter (PPB) walked into my Department of Commerce office in Arlington, Virginia and showed me a 60 Minutes news clip called “Plumpynut:...
Wikes Laudable Policy Against Polio
Odimegwu Onwumere writes that Governor Wike of Rivers State has shown commitment to the fight against polio, following the new cases of the disease that vegetated in Borno State, but such commitment...
Gov’t Rescues Ailing Psychiatric Hospital With Gh¢300k
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has presented a cheque of Ghc 300,000 and procured a GHc 100,000 worth of medications to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. This is to help alleviate the plight of patients...