HEALTH

Breast Care International (BCI), a campaigner against breast cancer in Africa has devised a strategy to keep the Breast Cancer awareness campaign alive amidst COVID-19 with a two-tier fundraising cocktail event. The event comes off on…
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Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says government has taken note of new waves of Covid-19 cases in some parts of the world including Europe and the US after many of them successfully slowed the initial outbreak a few months ago. He…
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President of the Private Health Facilities Association Ghana, Samuel Donkor Boakye has commended the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) for rapidly paying claims to the Association. “NHIA has done really well in terms of claims…
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Two more persons have succumbed to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Ghana. This brings the cumulative number of deaths to 299. Ghana has also recorded 131 new cases, making the total number of positive cases 46,353. This was…
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The Ghana AIDS Commission has expressed worry over the increasing prevalence of HIV among adolescents. It said out of the 20,068 new infections recorded in 2019, 5,613 representing 28 per cent were between the ages of 15 and 24.…
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The Ministry of Health has secured financial clearance for about 3,400 Allied Health professionals across the country, according to Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Benard Oko Boye. This means that soon health professionals will be able to…
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The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has suspended its nationwide strike. The leadership of the association called off the three-day-old strike today, September 23, 2020, but the health workers are to resume work…
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A total of 10,000 hospital beds are to be distributed to all public health facilities across the country beginning this week under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP). This according to President Akufo-Addo is…
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A pharmacognosist, Dr Moses De-Gaulle Dogbatsey, has dismissed the perception that having too much sex can cause prostate problems in men. Rather, Dr Dogbatsey, who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Medi Moses Prostate…
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The government is considering the possibility of allowing Ghanaians to access healthcare with their Ghana cards under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Dr. Lydia Baaba Dsane-Selby, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the…
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