HEALTH

A women’s cancer care hub, to offer preventative and curative cancer care, has been inaugurated at the HopeXchange Medical Center at Apire in Kumasi. The facility, a collaborative project of the US government, Ghana’s Ministry of Health…
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A study conducted by the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) in four regions in Ghana, has revealed a 50 per cent vulnerability of HIV-affected households to food insecurity due to their low income statuses. The study found out that the average…
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The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has said some negative opinions about the malaria vaccine implementation programme is a source of concern. The programme, initiated by the Health Ministry and the Ghana Health Service, has been…
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The implementation of the malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, will reduce the number of children who die from the disease by 40 percent yearly. This is according to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service(GHS), Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare.…
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Ramadan, which begins on May 6 in most countries this year, is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. It involves abstaining from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations from dawn to sunset, in the hopes that it will lead to…
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The Ministry of Health has explained that the reason behind the cancellation of procurement process for the supply of Anti-Snake venom was to avoid unfair evaluation and collusion in the tendering process. The Ministry said following…
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The Ho Teaching Hospital has inaugurated a seven-member management team after its transformation from a Regional Hospital to a Teaching Hospital. The upgrade from Volta Regional hospital, known as Trafalgar to a teaching hospital was…
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Open-Heart surgery to replace a damaged mitral valve with an artificial one on a sixty-one-year-old man has successfully been conducted for the first time outside the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). The mitral valve located at the…
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A Ghanaian-based charitable organisation, Lebanese Cultural Centre, LCC, has donated some medical equipment worth GH¢90,000 to the Child Cancer Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as part of its humanitarian works. The items…
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Mr Kwame Sefa-Kayi, the Founder of Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has presented two neonatal incubators to the Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga to improve on health care delivery of premature…
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