The Ministry of Health has received financial clearance to recruit 4,000 private medical practitioners to work in public health facilities in the country. Public Relations Officer of the Ministry,...
The Minister for Gender, Children & Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has served notice to proponents of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will be prosecuted since the practice is against the laws...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) is threatening to protest the proposed one per cent levy on the salaries of formal sector workers to fund the country’s national health insurance...
The Ministry of Health has denied putting out any forms for sale for persons interested in enrolling in any of the Public Health Training Institutes. “They are fake,” Robert Cudjoe the Public...
Deputy Health Minister Kingsley Aboagye-Gyedu has dared former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana to take him to court, if he feels maligned by the exposé on his involvement in the...
The Union for International Cancer Control, a body spearheading the fight against cancer, has selected Kumasi to be part of the ‘City Cancer Challenge 2025’’ project. This recognition makes...
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...
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...
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...
Nurses of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have threatened to withdraw their services and release all psychiatric patients on admission if the Ministry of Health fails to remove...
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for research into the health implications of heavy metals used by illegal miners on the various...
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has been hit by acute shortage of medical doctors, forcing the hospital authorities to prioritise only emergency cases. New emergency cases have...
Licencing examination of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana will from July next year be conducted online. The new online system, according to the Council, is to ease the laborious processes...
The Ministry of Health says it will work towards getting funds to settle the indebtedness of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital to avoid early discharge of patients receiving treatment. Authorities at...
Over 500 nurses employed upon agitation for financial clearance… The Ghanaian government finally paid heed to the laments and cries of the unemployed privately trained nurses who have been on a...
Their condition have been blamed on long hours of sitting and their inability to have regular medical checks due to the nature of their jobs, medical officials from the Ministry of Health and the Ga...
A couple who lost their twin babies at the Tema General Hospital in 2010 as a result of alleged negligence have renewed their demand for justice and the bodies of the babies for burial. Their 2010...
Following government’s decision to re-introduce the nursing trainee allowance scheme, it is also making plans to re-introduce the Nursing Trainee Quota system for nursing training institutions. The...
The Coalition for Unemployed Private Nurses Association has been on a picketing spree for the past few days, over their unemployment. These nurses who say they have been discriminated against since...
