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Ash Reg Health Directorate Scales Up Efforts In Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy

The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has promised to concentrate on it’s efforts in keeping Adolescents safe and...

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Ghana Health Service Launches Project Mp4H

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) Mp4H (Mobile phone for Health) project has been launched in Sunyani as part of a two-day...

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Constituency Cries For Dev’t Help

The Salaga North constituency in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region perhaps is the most deprived...

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GOIL Donates 50 Beds To Upper East Regional Hospital

GOIL has donated 50 beds with mattresses to the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital in the Upper East Region. The 50 beds,...

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Queen Mothers Association To Re-Introduce Puberty Rites To Curb Teenage Pregnancy

Queen mothers in the Ashanti region are considering reintroducing puberty rites to curb the high rate of teenage...

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18,441 Teenage Pregnancy Cases Recorded In the Ashanti Region Last Year

A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant representing 11.4% of all pregnancies last year 2016 A total of 18,441...

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Teenage Pregnancy Declines In Ashanti

Kumasi, May 22, GNA – Teenage pregnancy is on a downward trend in the Ashanti Region as the various interventions and...

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7 Fired At Atebubu Government Hospital Over Rot

The chiefs and youth alleged that the hospital was extorting money from pregnant women: file About seven (7) health...

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Atebubu-Amantin Hospital Victimising Staff

The management of the Atebubu-Amantin Government Hospital is abusing its powers by sanctioning innocent staff, the...

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Cease Charging Rape Victims – DOVVSU To Doctors

The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) has spoken openly for the first time against demands made by...

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Health Directorate Intensifies Tuberculosis Screening

The Upper West Regional Directorate of Health Services has intensified its screening efforts at identifying persons...

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Glaucoma Cases Reach Alarming Rate In Ashanti Region

The Ashanti Region has been recording an alarming rate of glaucoma cases with over 600 per cent rise between 2014 and...

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Efforts Intensified To Prevent Cholera In Central Region

The Central Regional Red Cross Society in collaboration with the Regional Health Directorate and other stakeholders...

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Alleged Spy For Health Director Counter Claims

Sydney Ageyomah Abilba, an employee of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), who was cited by a senior medical officer at the...

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UER Records 37 Maternal Deaths In 2016

37 maternal deaths were recorded in the Upper East Region in 2016, according to the regional health directorate. The...

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Upper East, Volta Record Highest Teenage Pregnancies In 2016

The Upper East Region recorded a total of 5,587 adolescent pregnancies representing 15.4% for the year 2016, with...

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Regional Health Director Warns of Possible Cholera Outbreak In B/A

The Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Director of Public Health, Dr Osei Kuffour Afreh has expressed concerns over a possible...

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GHS Directs ‘poor’ Health Facilities

Public health facilities throughout the Northern Region have been directed to cough out a stated amount towards the...

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Cases of Maternal Mortality Increase In Western Region

The maternal mortality rate in the Western Region increased from 75 per cent in 2015 to 92 per cent in 2016, due mainly...