A guideline to help regulate broadcast of religious content in the media in Ghana is expected to be ready by the end of the year. The guideline ultimately seeks to prevent the use of the airwaves to...
Medifem Multi-Specialist Hospital & Fertility Centre has celebrated Valentine’s Day with a renewed commitment to place patient and client satisfaction at the center of its health care provision. In...
A number of media houses and product owners, who are alleged to have flouted the country’s law on public health through the advertisement of drugs they claim to cure or prevent some manageable...
Doctors and medical staff at the Binde Health Center in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District of the Northern Region are calling for emergency rehabilitation of the facility to fix some structural defects...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has introduced an online reporting system called Safety Watch System (SWS), to enable health workers to report on safety issues related to drugs, vaccines and other...
Mr Raymond Kweku Appiah-Kubi, an executive member of the Gomoa-Pomadze Town Development Committee has urged Ghanaians to maintain sound environmental hygiene all the time to avoid diseases. He said...
After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – due to her fistula condition after her fifth birth, 40 years old Mma Fulera is now...
Lady Julia Osei Tutu, wife of the Asantehene, OtumfuoOsei Tutu II, has entreated Ghanaians to take interest in undertaking regular medical check-up as a measure to get early treatment of diseases...
On the occasion of Mother’s Day, the second Deputy Minority Whip, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe Ghansah has asked Ghanaians to fight against factors that are militating against women in the country. She...
The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo’s Mothers’ Day message highlighted the strides left to be made in order to reduce child and maternal mortality to acceptable levels in Ghana. Mrs. Akufo-Addo...
The day after Nepal was struck by a devastating earthquake, Samrat Basnet opened his doors to the wounded as hospitals overwhelmed with thousands of victims had to send away those without...
Superstar golfer Tiger Woods announced on his website Thursday that he has undergone a fourth back surgery to alleviate pain, one that likely sidelines him until October. "The surgery went well, and...
Patients Friend Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has organised a free health screening exercise for pupils of Precious Gift International School at Awoshie in Accra. The screening...
By Dr. Kojo Cobba Essel I assumed the above description applied only to certain concoctions being peddled about as miracle potions, until I had a rude awakening. I discovered that something that had...
The Northern Region has been adjudged the best performing region in the country in neonatal health care in 2016 by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Under the GHS National League Table, the region...
There’s an increasingly alarming number of unqualified practitioners involved in irrational patient diagnosis in various hospitals across the country, Director of Claims at the National Health...
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...
The Ghana Association of teachers (GNAT), Kumasi metro has organized a free health screening exercise for it’s members to ensure they go about their daily activities in good health. The exercise,...
Stroke has become the leading cause of deaths at the hospital claiming 512 lives within 3 years Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) also known as Stroke claimed the lives of 181 patients out of the 1,389...
A group calling itself the Coalition for Change in Government Institutions is calling on government to as a matter of urgency deploy a team of auditors to the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) to...
