12-year old Kimbly suffered a kidney failure in June 2016, just two days after his sister, Vanessa, wrote her final exam paper to bow out of Junior High school. Her desire to continue her education...
El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa, providing an early warning that could save lives, scientists said Monday. During the...
The National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) has appointed Nana Ehunabobrim Prah Agyensaim VI, King and President of Assin Owirenkyi Traditional Council as the new Ambassador of Tuberculosis...
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has stated that he has no problems with “sex-before-marriage.” In his view, the massive influx and...
The President of Breast Care International, BCI, and CEO of the Peace and Love Hospitals, Dr. (Mrs.) Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has renewed the commitment of the two institutions to a holistic health care...
Ghanaian showbiz personality and former broadcaster, Mabelle Prior has made a call to African governments to create more awareness on breast cancer and provide the needed support for treatment for...
The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on the government to fulfil its promise to engage key stakeholders in a dialogue on the US Millennium Challenge...
Dr Franklin Asiedu Bekoe, the Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has cautioned media practitioners to desist from publishing unsubstantiated statistics on deaths...
Renowned Consultant, Breast surgeon and President of Breast Care International Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai is confident the country could attain a breast cancer free status with consistent support from...
The Greater Accra Region has recorded the highest number of maternal deaths in the country with the leading cause being bleeding and hypertension, the Ghana Health (GHS) has said. In 2016, the region...
The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah, says it will take disease researchers at least a week to determine the particular type of meningitis that killed four...
The Ghana Health Service has intensified processes to identify more cases of pneumococcal meningitis at Kumasi Academy and its environs after it discovered 26 cases of the disease at the school....
The outcome of the post-mortem examination carried out on students of Kumasi Academy Senior High School who lost their lives last week has been made public following the public interest the deaths...
The Director General of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Nsiah Asare has warned Ghanaians to be cautious and vigilant because the country is in a meningitis season. So far, over 50 people have died over...
Nigeria has started a mass vaccination programme in a bid to stop an outbreak of meningitis. More than 300 people have died of the disease since late last year. Medical officials are focusing efforts...
Some students of Kumasi Academy say they are taking the official cause of death of four of their mates with a pinch of salt. According to them, there is no truth in the autopsy report which cites...
Some students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (SHS) have rejected the post-mortem examination which concluded that four of their colleagues who have lost their lives within the last few...
A community empowerment group, AID Ghana, has made donations of various items including stationery, learning and teaching materials and toiletries to the Autism Awareness Care and Training (AACT), to...
The Tamale Teaching Hospital has for three consecutive years, recorded an upsurge in maternal mortality; something authorities have blamed on overcrowded wards and late transfer of critical cases to...
It has been revealed that the four deaths, recently recorded at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School in Ashanti were due to meningitis. In all, a total of 26 cases of meningitis have since been...
