HEALTH

Samuel Kwakye, the Eastern Regional Director of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it is an offence to send any person below 18 years of age to buy tobacco and tobacco products. Again, laws against smoking in public places would be…
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ABOUT 5,000 ORPHANS and widows from some Zongo communities in Kumasi have benefited from a largesse by Alpha Radio, when the popular, Kumasi-based radio station, headed by Sheikh Mohammed Ridwan, provided food items to the beneficiaries.…
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Mrs. Magdalene Agbi, a Nurse at the Family Health Unit, Ho Municipal Health Directorate, has appealed to government to make the sign language examinable in health training institutions in the country. She said it was only when the…
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Pregnant adolescents and mothers in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA), Municipality of the Central Region on Tuesday, resolved to 'combat' the scourge of teen pregnancies in the Area. They had agreed to use a multifaceted approach…
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The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has called off its industrial strike. The workers have been on strike over low wages and poor conditions of service. The Association said the “overwhelming and desperate” pleas of…
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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has decried the rising use of shisha among teenagers in the country, as it has emerged that 1.3 per cent of students at the Junior High School (JHS) level in Ghana smoke it.Shisha is a single- or multi-stemmed…
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The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has engaged farmer-based organisations (FBOs) in the Kumbungu district of the Northern Region on the dangers associated with aflatoxin in grains.The programme, which was organised on Wednesday, 29 May…
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The Ghana AIDS Commission has raised red flags over the rise in new infections in the Eastern Region. The Eastern Region which was notoriously known for the high prevalence rate made some strides in the fight against HIV but it is losing…
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Days for Girls, a Non-Governmental Organisation has organised an educational forum for girls on how to be punctual in school and be hygienic during periods of menstruation as part of its celebration to mark International Menstrual Hygiene…
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First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo on Tuesday cut the sod for the construction of a 16 bed fully equipped Health Centre for the people at Kwame Anum in the Ga South Municipality of Greater Accra Region. The facility, being…
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