The Bawku Presbyterian hospital in the Upper East Region has recorded 20 maternal deaths in the past two years. Statistics from the maternity department of the hospital show that six mothers died in...
A 34-year-old female resident of Amasaman, Doris Agbasi Oleki, is seeking the help of benevolent organisations and the general public to fund her six-month dialysis bills at the Renal Dialysis Unit...
The suspended founder member of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby has revealed that President Akufo-Addo voted against his suspension in 2013. The suspension of Dr. Wereko-Brobby,...
A former student of the Yaa Asantewaa Girls Senior High School in Kumasi, Dr Ellen Boakye over the weekend swept 10 awards from the University Of Ghana. A former student of the Yaa Asantewaa Girls...
Health facilities have been urged to go the extra mile to keep fridges and other blood transfusion equipment clean and free from contamination. Mr. Mathew Gyan Nkum, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Director...
Family Health Medical School, a private medical school in Ghana has held its second matriculation ceremony for its 2nd batch of Medical Students. The ceremony, which took place at the school’s...
Dr. Angela El-Adas, Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, has stated that the Commission did not have the financial capacity to conduct experiment on drugs that would permanently cure HIV...
Their contribution to Ghana’s health sector has over the years been relegated to the background with people looking down upon them because of the kind of job they do. Recently, an incensed mortuary...
A woman suffering from an extremely rare condition means she constantly smells like FISH. Kelly Fidoe-White, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, has lived her entire life with Trimethylaminuria – a...
A retired diplomat, Dr. KB Asante has disclosed that Ghana’s first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was not happy about the detention of Dr. JB Danquah. “Kwame Nkrumah was not happy JB was in prison...
Young men who resort to drinking bitters and other aphrodisiacs for sexual potency should refrain from the practice since it can worsen their plight, an urologist at the Kumasi South Hospital, Dr...
There has been a 5.8% decline in the figures of underweight babies under five years born in the Upper East Region. This is an improvement as compared to the rate of 12.3% and 7.8% in 2014 and 2015...
The maternal mortality rate in the Western Region increased from 75 per cent in 2015 to 92 per cent in 2016, due mainly to pregnancy-related complications including post-partum haemorrhage (excessive...
A woman who lost her newly born baby Tuesday due to what she claimed to be infection at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the 37 Military Hospital in Accra has threatened to pursue the...
The Director General of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), Dr. Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira, has announced plans to strengthen the operation of Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compounds to...
The Nigerian government is either confused about its meaning or has decided to redefine it. The Nigerian government may have succeeded in redefining the word ‘healthy’. According to Oxford...
The neonatal unit of the 37 military hospital has been closed down for the next 5 days for a routine fumigation exercise. The unit would be reopened to the public on Monday, February 27. The...
Zimbabwe has deployed army medics to work at major public hospitals following a week-long strike by junior doctors who are demanding an increase in call allowances and a duty free car facility, a...
Eating loads of fruit and vegetables - 10 portions a day - may give us longer lives, say researchers. The study, by Imperial College London, calculated such eating habits could prevent 7.8 million...
A fibroid is a benign, non-cancerous growth that occurs in or around the uterus. It is also known as leiomyoma, or simply myoma, in medical terminology. A woman can have a single fibroid or multiple...
