Health care givers at the Suntreso Hospital and Kumasi South Hospital in Kumasi have undergone a neonatal care training sessions imparted by three Israeli Neonatal experts. The purpose of these...
Healthcare givers at the Suntreso Hospital and Kumasi South Hospital in Kumasi have undergone a neonatal care training sessions imparted by three Israeli Neonatal experts. The purpose of these...
In a bid to stem the high rate of neonatal deaths in the country, a group has educated mothers on the current care of the umbilical cord at Trede in the Ashanti region. The group, Guardian of the...
The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, has presented two incubators worth $20,000 to the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo Addo towards her “Save a Mother Save a Child.” Mr Kwami Sefa Kayi, founder of...
The findings of a health research has indicated that the ages and educational levels of mothers and other predictors are key determinants in the survival of sick new-born babies in some districts in...
Delegates at the World Health Organisation (WHO) Assembly have requested for the development of a five-year global strategic blueprint for public health preparedness and response to epidemic...
The new Greater Accra Regional Hospital will be fully operational Monday, May, 22, 2017, according to management of the facility. Authorities have thus denied claims that the hospital was closed down...
Tiny Indonesian baby Maryamah stared around from inside an incubator, her bright eyes swivelling left and right from under a woollen hat that was far too big for her. When she was born prematurely,...
The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), in collaboration with the Latter-Day Saint Charities and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has organised a one-week training programme for maternal and neonatal...
Some Cambodian mothers have been selling their breast milk to women in the US, in a controversial practice that has now been banned. But the case has raised questions about whether these women have...
Cambodia officially banned selling and exporting locally-pumped human breast milk on Tuesday, after reports exposed how women were turning to the controversial trade to boost meagre incomes in one of...
Prof. Stephane Gentil, a Plastic Surgeon from France, on Tuesday donated two incubators and a radiant warmer valued at 55,000 dollars to the 37 Military Hospital Maternity Ward to help take care of...
UNICEF on Wednesday condemned a company selling breast milk from "vulnerable and poor" Cambodian mothers to Americans, hitting out at the commercialisation of nutrients needed by babies inside the...
Cambodia has temporarily stopped an American company from exporting locally-pumped human breast milk, AFP has learned, after reports highlighted how some of the country's poorest women were...
More than seven (7) people have died and the death toll is still rising at the Tamale Teaching Hospital after a chaotic and disastrous management decision to abandon a faulty oxygen producing machine...
A woman who lost her newly born baby Tuesday due to what she claimed to be infection at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the 37 Military Hospital in Accra has threatened to pursue the...
The neonatal unit of the 37 military hospital has been closed down for the next 5 days for a routine fumigation exercise. The unit would be reopened to the public on Monday, February 27. The...
The Agona Swedru Municipal Hospital in the Central Region on Thursday observed the world prematurity day to raise awareness of pre-term birth and the concerns of pre-term babies and their families....
August 1-7 is the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), a week set aside to draw attention to the importance and benefits of breastfeeding.
The slogan and theme for WBW 2016 is breastfeeding: A key to...
One newborn child dies every 15 minutes in Ghana with 30,000 newborn deaths recorded each year. This according to a statement by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF),...
