HEALTH

Students of the Sunyani Senior High School (SHS) last weekend, rushed to participate in a blood donation exercise, organised by MTN Ghana, a mobile telecommunication service provider to mark this year’s Valentine’s Day celebration. But…
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The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has raised concerns over government’s failure to promptly pay National Health Insurance claims to health facilities across the country. GMA says the issue of delayed payment of claims needs to be…
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Health officials in Tema are worried about the latest HIV/AIDs statistics which put the municipality far above the regional figures. Out of the 14,900 people who tested for the deadly virus in Tema, 1,222 were found to be positive.…
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Mobile phone retail company Telefonika has donated an amount of GH¢12,050 to the Children’s Cancer Ward of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as part of its commitment to help improve the lives of children suffering from cancer. The donation…
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Ghana and three other African countries - the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Zambia - have licensed and can now distribute an Ebola vaccine, which the World Heath Organization (WHO) has hailed as a "milestone". Preliminary…
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About 2 million children are to be immunized against polio virus type 2 in a nationwide inactive polio vaccine (IPV) immunization campaign. The campaign is commencing from February 19 to February 25, 2020 by the Ghana Health Service.…
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The Ashaiman Municipal Health Directorate reduced maternal mortality in 2019, recording only three cases against six cases in 2018. Mrs Patience Ami Mamattah, Ashaiman Municipal Director of Health Services, announced this during the…
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The first fatality from the Coronavirus has been reported in France. According to the BBC, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist has died in France after contracting the disease. The victim was from China’s Hubei province, according to French…
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A group of nurses and midwives have hit hard at the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) over what they describe as unconsented deductions. According to them, the new executives of Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives…
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The Chamber of Pharmacy, Ghana (CoPG) has served notice that its members will no longer provide medicines to hospitals that have delayed in paying for drugs offered, for more than three months. This, it said, is to forestall any…
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