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Samira Secures Free Childcare For Ghanaians Abroad
Ghana’s Second Lady Mrs. Samira Bawumia, through her not-for-profit organisation, the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP), has secured twelve (12) scholarships and free services for children needing special pediatric care…
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Fishermen threaten demo over unpaid compensation
Fishermen operating on the coastline of Tema have threatened to embark on a demonstration exercise against the Meridian Ports Services (MPS) because the company had refused to compensate them despite earlier assurances.
According to the…
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Gov’t Succumb To Threats From Unemployed Private Nurses
Government of Ghana has acceded to threats by some unemployed private nurses who had vowed to hit the streets if government failed to employ them into the mainstream health sector.
Barely 24 hours after the aggrieved nurses held a press…
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African C-Sections ’50 Times More Deadly’
The number of mothers who die after a Caesarean-section in Africa is as much as 50 times higher than in developed countries, according to a study in the medical journal The Lancet.
Their sample indicated that one in 200 women dies during…
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MOTIVATE RURAL DOCTORS …GMA Prez Tells Gov’t
GOVERNMENT has been urged to give special incentive packages to medical doctors that are posted to the rural areas to motivate them to happily move to the deprived communities to do their work.
The President of the Ghana Medical…
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Dr. Nyarkotey Nominated For World-Renowned Scientific Award
The scientific works of renowned Ghanaian Prostate scientist, and Prostate scientist and Professor of Alternative Medicine, Dr Raphael Nyarkotey Obu seem to have reached far beyond the borders of the African continent.
After whisking…
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Ho Municipal Hospital honoured as Volta’s best for 2018
Ho Municipal Hospital has been adjudged the best health facility in the Volta Region at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) 2018 regional peer review conference.
Dr Lawrence Kumi, Medical Director of the Hospital was praised for his “prudent…
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Over 700,000 Ghanaians Have Glaucoma―OSG
Out of the 28.83 million people living in Ghana, over 700,000 of them are said to be affected with the Glaucoma―a leading eye defect.
According to the Ophthalmological Society of Ghana (OSG) eight out of 100 Ghanaians between the age of…
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World Kidney Day Marked …Patients Worried of High Cost of Treatment
“Every day at the emergency department of the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), we realize not less than three cases of terminal kidney diseases coming in,” a doctor at the Renal Department of KBTH has revealed.
This according to the…
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Children Treated On Bare Floor At Wa Regional Hosp.
A sizeable chunk of the hordes of child-patients who troop to the 200-bed capacity Wa Regional Hospital in the Upper West Region for medical attention end up being treated on the bare floor due to lack of adequate beds, Wa-based Home Radio…
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