HEALTH

COVID-19 deaths in Ghana now stand at 117 with 4,467 active cases and 13,550 recoveries, the Ghana Health Service has announced on its website. A total of 300,520 tests have so far been conducted ever since Ghana recorded its first cases…
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A Deputy Minister for Health, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye has justified the government’s decision to comply with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation to discharge persons with COVID-19. According to him, the World Health…
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Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has paid a working visit to four Covid-19 treatment and holding centres under construction in the Greater Accra Region. The facilities are located in Shai-Osudoku District Hospital, Pantang Learning…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) with the assistance of the Police Drug Enforcement Unit of the Ghana Police CID has seized a total of 431 bottles of unregistered herbal drugs purported to be a cure for Covid-19. The fake medicinal…
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Ghana has recorded some 319 new confirmed cases of Coronavirus. The Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Aboagye made this known on Tuesday, June 30. He said the cases were recorded in 41 districts. About 217 of…
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is not even close to being over. It has now been six months since the first cases of a mysterious pneumonia-like illness were reported in Wuhan,…
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President Nana Akufo-Addo has extended the incentive packages for health workers by additional three months. He says over the next three months – July, August and September – health workers will not pay income taxes. Also, he said front…
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Ho Municipal Environmental Health Officer, Aaron Amedzro, is appealing to the government to resource Coronavirus burial teams for “effective” and safe internment of victims of the pandemic. He said the support given to the burial teams…
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The United States recorded an all-time daily high of 40,000 coronavirus infections on Thursday, figures from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) show. A recent surge in infections and hospitalisations has prompted the states of Texas, Florida,…
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Of the many challenges the COVID-19 pandemic Of the many challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has created in the healthcare system, the National Blood Service has got its fair share: the blood bank is in dire need of life-saving blood.…
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