HEALTH

One of the leading pharmaceutical companies in West Africa, Tobinco Pharmaceuticals Limited, has donated medical supplies worth GHS251,000 to the Ministry of Health. The donation, which was made on Friday at the Premises of the ministry,…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it has not tested and approved any drug, herbal medicine or food supplement for the treatment of COVID- 19. According to the FDA, clinical trials are ongoing on some products, and it would…
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The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has directed its district offices to attend to only pregnant women, children under five years and indigents as classified by the Department for Social Welfare. The move, according to the…
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The 52 people currently undergoing treatment at the various COVID-19 management centres are not in the intensive care category as it is in other dispensations, a Presidential Adviser on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has said. Some…
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Management of Salt Media GH has donated washing and sanitary materials to the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital to support the the center in the wake of the Covid-19 virus outbreak across the world. The items were submitted on behalf of the…
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Tests are becoming more widely available and are being processed in commercial labs and academic centers across the country. In the US, the most common test for the COVID-19 virus looks for viral RNA in a sample taken with a swab from a…
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President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced that the Ministry of Health is engaging the services of retired and new health professionals to augment that of its current staff as the country braces itself for a possible surge in the number of…
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One of the 19 persons infected with the novel coronavirus in Ghana has died. Deputy Health Minister, Alex K. Abban confirmed the fatality in an interview on TV3 Saturday evening. The deceased, a 61-year-old Lebanese, was a Kumasi-based…
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More than 182,000 people around the world have so far been infected by the coronavirus disease (covid-19). And over 7,100 have accordingly been killed by the virus which started in Wuhan, China. The above statistics were presented by the…
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Ghana in a matter of less than two weeks has recorded six cases of the deadly global pandemic-Corona Virus disease. As at last Friday, the country’s records in respect of the disease stood at two, a development that appeared not so…
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