Director of the Ghana Public Health Service, Dr. Badu Sarkodie, has assured Ghanaians his outfit is prepared to contain lassa fever should there be an outbreak in the country. He was reacting to the...
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has allayed the fears of the public on the outbreak of Lassa fever, saying its alert was to create the needed awareness so that precautionary measures would be strictly...
Medical doctors at the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua are alarmed over increasing death cases related to stroke, HIV, Pneumonia and heart related diseases in the region. Other prominent...
Sustained adolescent health education campaign mounted by the Kumasi Metropolitan Health Directorate to help bring down teenage pregnancy is paying off. Dr. Mrs. Alberta Biritwum Nyarko, the...
Mrs Veronica Asamoah Tortor, the Dormaa West District Director of Health, has expressed worry about alcohol abuse among pregnant women in the District. She said the unhealthy lifestyle of the...
The lives of patients requiring emergency transportation from one health facility to the other in the Western Region are in danger as the only ambulance serving the region has been involved in an...
It occurs as a result of damage to the peripheral nerves and often causes numbness, weakness, and pain in the hands and feet. 1 traumatic injuries 2 infections 3 Diabetes mellitus 4 exposure to...
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...
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has impounded a Kia truck full of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis at Buokono, near Asesewa in the Upper Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region. NACOB in...
A 37 year old herbalist, Mallam Abdul Razak Mohamed, resident at Suhum in the Eastern Region, claims to have found cure for HIV and AIDS to end the pain and suffering of people infected with it....
Ghanaian-German Hollywood actor Boris Ofuatey Kodjoe and his wife, Nicole, have paid a courtesy visit to FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, to acquaint themselves with the facility as well as spend time...
Swine Flu Vaccines – Vaccines for the H1N1 flu have arrived the country says the Ministry of Health. The Public Relations Officer officer at the ministry who interacted with Citi News said that a...
A suspected case of meningitis has claimed the third final year student at the Upper East Region; this time, a Zuarungu SHS student. Recall that two other final year students had died of what is also...
Swine Flu – Drugs will be administered to carriers, as well as those quarantined for the endemic swine flu disease. Ghana Education Service (GES) issued a statement after a meeting with the...
Meningitis in SHSs – Death tolls have continued to rise in schools causing a great sense of fear among parents and their wards. Over five students have died of suspected meningitis in various...
At least one student of the Bawku Senior High Technical School has been confirmed dead following what is believe to be an outbreak of meningitis in the school. Five more students have been admitted...
KUMACA Deaths – It was a very sad and sorrowful atmosphere at, Krofom, Bremang in the Ashanti region, as one of the victims of the Influenza H1N1 outbreak at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School...
The medical terms may have been ambiguous for the layman but the Influenza H1N1 said to have led to the demise of students at KUMACA is called Swine Flu. The Ghana Health Service has warned of an...
KUMACA Deaths – Families of deceased students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School have received a sum of GHC 5,000 from the government. This compensation by the government was presented to the...
Some parents who “mysteriously” lost their wards at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) are contesting claims by the Ministry of Health that they died as a result of swine flu...
