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...
Another 27 suspects have been arrested for the vaccine scandal revealed last March in east China’s Shandong province, adding the total number of the arrested to 324. The number is released by Cao...
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...
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...
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...
The editor in-chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako, has described as insensitivity and a shame - the inability of government and institutions responsible for dealing with the...
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...
Government would be releasing a total of GHC1 million to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital next week to shore up its function, a deputy Communications Minister has said. Felix Kwakye Ofosu said the...
An Accra High Court on Friday quashed the Electoral Commission (EC)'s disqualification of All People's Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate Dr Hassan Ayariga on the basis of errors found on his...
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...
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have refused to return to work although government has smade available to the facility some drugs and some consumables, and an amount of money, with a promise...
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...
Spider veins, also known as telangiectasias or angioectasias, are small, dilated blood vessels. The affected vessels appear like thin red or blue lines on the surface of the skin or mucous membranes...
Journalist and television personality Nana Aba Anamoah has begun a social media campaign to compel government to pay more attention to mental health in the country. Nana Aba wants government to send...
Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo has reiterated her message that her husband Nana Akufo-Addo is a man of his words, and will honour his promises to Ghanaians, should he be voted as President. Mrs...
Tooth extraction, when necessary, is not bad We have read with serious concern, a front-page headline article titled "Tooth extraction is bad -Dentist" in the Friday, 21st October 2016 edition of The...
The Mental Health Authority has said the absence of nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, is worsening the already dire situation at the facility. The psychiatric nurses on Friday October 28,...
Health policy analyst, Dr Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, wants the Ghana Health Service to reorient the training of health professionals in the country on mental health. That, he explained, would help ease the...
The Ministry of Health has directed all districts and regional hospitals across the country to be on high alert and set up isolation centres following the outbreak of cholera in Cape Coast in the...
FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital has been awarded for its excellence in African healthcare innovation for musculoskeletal disorders and spine deformity in Abuja. FOCOS received the award at the just-ended...
