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FGM Is A Crime; Stop It

The Minister for Gender, Children & Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has served notice to proponents of Female...

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ICU Threatens Unrest Over Proposed 1% Levy On Workers’ Salary

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) is threatening to protest the proposed one per cent levy on the...

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Sale of Forms Into Health Institutions Fake

The Ministry of Health has denied putting out any forms for sale for persons interested in enrolling in any of the...

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Deputy Minister Dares Prof. Aryeetey To Go To Court Over Medical Centre Expose

Deputy Health Minister Kingsley Aboagye-Gyedu has dared former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana to take him...

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KMA Gets Support To Fight Cancer

The Union for International Cancer Control, a body spearheading the fight against cancer, has selected Kumasi to be...

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Swine Flu Vaccines Arrive, Citizens To Be Administered Drugs Soonest

Swine Flu Vaccines – Vaccines for the H1N1 flu have arrived the country says the Ministry of Health. The Public...

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Drugs and Vaccines For Disease En Route To Ghana

Swine Flu – Drugs will be administered to carriers, as well as those quarantined for the endemic swine flu disease....

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What Each Bereaved Family Received From Govt

KUMACA Deaths – Families of deceased students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School have received a sum of GHC...

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Our Children Didn’t Die From Swine Flu

Some parents who “mysteriously” lost their wards at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) are contesting...

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Sack Our Director In A Week Or Risk Withdrawal of Services – Psychiatric Nurses

Nurses of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have threatened to withdraw their services and release...

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Prof Akosa Calls For Research Into Health Implications of Galamsey

Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for research into...

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KATH Hit By Acute Shortage of Doctors, New Emergency Admissions Suspended

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has been hit by acute shortage of medical doctors, forcing the...

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Nursing and Midwifery Examination To Be Done Online From 2018

Licencing examination of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana will from July next year be conducted online. The...

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MoH To Find Funds To Settle GHC3m Debt of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital

The Ministry of Health says it will work towards getting funds to settle the indebtedness of the Ankaful Psychiatric...

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Health Sector Finally Pays Heed To Massive Protest

Over 500 nurses employed upon agitation for financial clearance… The Ghanaian government finally paid heed to the...

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Traders At Dome Market Have High Blood Pressure, Diabetes

Their condition have been blamed on long hours of sitting and their inability to have regular medical checks due to the...

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Couple Demands Justice, Corpse of Babies Killed By Medical Negligence In 2010

A couple who lost their twin babies at the Tema General Hospital in 2010 as a result of alleged negligence have renewed...

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Opposition Fears NPP’s New Directive May Flop

Following government’s decision to re-introduce the nursing trainee allowance scheme, it is also making plans to...

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Picketing Escalates To Cooking And Sleeping At Health Ministry

The Coalition for Unemployed Private Nurses Association has been on a picketing spree for the past few days, over...