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GHS Proposes Reinsurance Policy for its Workers
The Ghana Health Service, 5th Governing Council has proposed a reinsurance policy for its entire staff to ensure their welfare.
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare disclosed this during the…
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Tobacco and Alcohol Taxes to Fund NHIS
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has proposed new taxes on tobacco and alcohol to raise further revenue to fund the scheme.
At the meet-the-press in Wa recently, the regional director of the scheme, Mr. Abass Suleymana,…
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Ghana Risk Not Achieving SDG Three
Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Minister of Health, has warned that Ghana risked not achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Three, if access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Rights of People with Disabilities (PWDs), were…
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Gov’t Gives Priority to Family Planning in NHIS
Government through various sector agencies has formulated the Ghana Family Planning Actions for Accelerated Policy to ensure universal coverage of services by 2020 to control the number of child births.
The policy seeks to boost…
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Korle Bu Has Beds, It Lacks Systems – Dr.Segbefia
Medical Practitioner and member of Occupy Ghana, Michael Segbefia, has dismissed reports suggesting that the Korle Bu Hospital is battling with the no bed syndrome.
There were instances recently at Korle Bu where some people had to buy…
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Babies Die at St. Theresa’s Hospital over Lack of Incubator
Twenty-eight preterm babies have so far died at the St Theresa’s Hospital at Nkoransa in the Nkoransa Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region, due to the absence of an incubator.
The St. Theresa’s Hospital at Nkoransa established in 1972,…
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PCOS―When Excess Male Hormones ‘Messes’ A Woman Up
The month of September has specifically been set aside as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) awareness month but unfortunately not many women in Ghana are aware of this, talk-less of what the PCOS condition is about.
For this reason, the…
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Aglow Lauds Breast Care International
The President of Aglow International, Mrs. Dorothy Danso, has commended Breast Care International (BCI) for its advocacy work in dealing with breast cancer cases in Ghana.
BCI has been organizing free breast screening exercises…
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Nurses Advised To Change Uniforms after Work
President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) Kweku Asante Krobea has stated that though not a written policy, it is always advisable for nurses to wear their uniforms only when they are carrying out their…
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Doctors to Strike Over Salary
Doctors in the country are threatening an indefinite industrial action, effective Monday, 6 August 2018, if government fails to resolve challenges with their salaries.
According to the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), doctors in the…
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