HEALTH

The Upper West Region recorded the highest number of malaria cases and also topped in malaria-related deaths from 2011 to 2016, according to health officials, who describe the trend as alarming and threatening. The officials who made the…
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The Ministry of Health has extended the deadline to July 16, for the recruitment of private and public trained nurses who completed their training from 2012 to 2016 from accredited Health Training Institutions. A statement signed by Nana…
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Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has been identified as the leading cause of deaths in Ghana due to the proliferation of junk foods and inadequate physical activities among the public. Dr. Denis Odai Laryea, the Programmes Manager for…
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The Minister for Local Government And Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama says seventeen thousand people die annually in Ghana as a result of fumes from traditional cookstoves and open fires in the country. According to her, over two…
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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has declared a public health emergency following the detection of the poliovirus type-2 in the Northern Region capital, Tamale. A public health emergency, according to the WHO, is "an occurrence or imminent…
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The government of Israel as part of efforts to deepen relationship with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has inaugurated two neonatal units in two health facilities in the Kumasi Metropolis. The beneficiary hospitals are the Kumasi South…
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Euroget De-Invest, contractors working on the new Tepa Government Hospital project, have given the assurance that the project would be completed by December this year and handed over to government in March next year. Mr. Khalid Ahmed,…
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A seven-month-old baby boy, Alfred Mwinemaaro, whose parents hail from Nkoranza in the Bono East Region has successfully undergone cleft lip repair at the Dormaa Presbyterian Hospital (DPH), Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Dormaa Central Municipality…
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Michael Asare, a Keta-based businessman has accused the Keta Municipal Hospital of allegedly selling drugs and services under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to subscribers of the Scheme. He said the practice was undermining…
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The National Youth Authority (NYA) in partnership with Plan International Ghana is calling for concerted efforts to sustain the fight against high teenage pregnancies and early marriages being recorded in communities around the Wa West…
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