The Deputy Health Minister Dr Victor Bampoe says the Africa Development Bank has earmarked $60m for countries affected by the Ebola virus.
A further $150 million is available by way of loans and...
A doctor in Port Harcourt who treated a primary contact of Nigeria's patient zero for the Ebola outbreak has died from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The death of doctor has been confirmed by the...
The Nigerian Government has announced the successful containment of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
Onyebuchi Chukwu, minister of health, who made this known in a statement by Dan Nwomeh,...
The government has given the go ahead to public and private universities to re-open their institutions for the 2014/2015 academic year with effect from August 27, 2014.
A statement issued in Accra...
The American doctor, Dr Kent Brantly, who was receiving treatment at Emory's University Hospital after contracting Ebola is scheduled to be released today, August 21, 2014.
The doctor who contracted...
Ghana could be forced to ban flights from Ebola affected countries once the spillover rate becomes threatening in West Africa.
Kenya has already banned flights from Sierra Leone and Liberia as a...
A Virologist at the Ghana Veterinary Service, Dr. Joseph Adongo-Awuni has cautioned the public to place equal emphasis on the animal to human mode of transmitting the Ebola virus.
“We are still at...
Fear and ignorance have become obtrusive elements stymieing governmental and international efforts in the fight against the current pervasive West African Ebola Epidemic.
In Ghana, there have been...
There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia was looted.
An angry mob attacked the centre in the city's...
The first Nigerian Ebola patient has been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emergency Operation Centre, EOC, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
News of the discharge of the unnamed...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said between 12 and 13 August, a total of 152 new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 76 deaths...
The government of Ghana has refused a request by Sierra Leone’s national team to play its 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against DR Congo in Accra next month.
CAF instructed countries being...
According to the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kasoa, Adam Nuhu, tests conducted on blood samples of two persons suspected to have Ebola have proved negative.
There were reports that the Kasoa...
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), some foreign nationals who have sojourned in Ghana have disclosed some of the procedural lapses by Ghana's Immigration Service (GIS) while securing...
Despite the continuous public health education about how to recognize the symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease, the debilitating effects of virus, mode of transmission, its prevalence, and how to...
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who form the first medical response team at the epicenters of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa are being infected and dieing from the disease.
The loss...
Shama, a fishing community in Ghana's Western Region with a population of close to 24,000 could possibly become one of the epicenters of an Ebola outbreak in Ghana.
The fishermen of Shama have made...
The medical health personnel on staff at some of Ghana's hospitals have expressed growing resentment about the Ministry of Health's (MOH) selection of certain health centers in the country as...
The inter-ministerial Committee on Ebola is expected to meet today to review strategies on preventing the entry of the deadly virus into the country.
The committee was set up to institute measures to...
Reports say three persons have been isolated at the Nsawam Government hospital in the Eastern Region for supposedly showing signs of the Ebola attack.
MultiTV’s Matilda Womegah, who visited the...
