HEALTH

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is warning of dire health challenges in the coming years should government fail to substantially invest in the country’s emergency medical care system. The Association says aside from the low…
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Millions of Covid vaccines could be wasted if rich countries send large amounts of leftover doses to poorer nations in one go, Unicef has warned. The charity said there needed to be a steady supply throughout the year because poor…
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The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Ghana, has donated 10 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to three hospitals in Accra. The hospitals are Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, 37…
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Harnessing Talents for Rural Development (HATAFORD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the Jirapa Municipality, has appealed to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to make Family Planning products and services available to…
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Dr Mavis Oppong Addo, the Greater Accra Regional Malaria Case Management facilitator, has called for increased and sustained education on malaria prevention to properly manage the cases in Ghana. She said even though the country has made…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for variants of Covid-19. From now on the WHO will use Greek letters to refer to variants first detected in countries like the UK, South Africa and India. The UK…
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The managers of the Ga West Municipal Hospital in the Greater Accra Region, is asking government for the construction of a mortuary for the hospital facility. Management of the hospital says the absence of a hospital mortuary makes it…
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Africa needs at least 20 million doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine within the next six weeks to get the second round of shots to people who’ve already received the first, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Data shows…
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Ms Sarah Adwoa Safo, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has said her Ministry has sent proposal for a tax waiver on sanitary products to Parliament for consideration. She said the proposal, when approved, would…
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Mr Maxwell Kotie, the Assin South District Health Promotion Officer, says access to accurate education on Sexual and Reproductive Health Right (SRHR) is a sure way to reduce teenage pregnancy. He said though society refrained from sexual…
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