HEALTH

Around 50 girls are being treated in hospital in Burkina Faso after botched circumcisions, or female genital mutilation (FGM), a minister says. Not all girls who underwent the circumcision have been traced, Minister of Women's Affairs,…
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Dr Judith Owusu, a Medical Practitioner, has called on the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ghana AIDS Commission to step-up education on HIV and AIDS as recent survey has shown that a number of reported cases have increased. She said…
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The National Cataracts Outreach Program (NCOP) will today, begin a free screening and cataracts surgery for affected persons at the Koforidua Regional Hospital. Making this announcement to the media, the Head of Eye Care Unit at the…
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The Ghana Mental Health Authority (GMHA) has called on government to expedite action on the passage of a legislative instrument that would decriminalise suicide. This, they said would enable persons who fail in taking their lives to…
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Zimbabwe has launched a crowdfunding campaign to deal with an outbreak of cholera that has so far killed 25 people, mostly in the capital, Harare. New Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube sent an appeal on Twitter, sharing a mobile payment…
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Mrs Delese Mimi Darko, the chief executive of the Food and Drugs Authority, has been nominated for the 2018 United Nations Interagency Taskforce on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases Awards. In 2018, the United…
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The Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) has organised a two-day training workshop for 12 peer educators to assist in preventing the prevalence of teenage pregnancies in the country. The peer educators who were drawn from the Greater…
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The Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu, has commissioned 26 solar-powered micro off-grid health facilities in the Northern, Brong Ahafo and Western Regions. Speaking at the commissioning on Monday, Mr. John Peter Amewu announced an…
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The Chairman of the Medical and Dental Council, Ghana (MDCG), Prof. Paul Kwame Nyame has bemoaned the rate at which tuition fees of some tertiary institutions―especially medical and dental schools have escalated over the years. He…
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The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Wednesday, handed over the Ghana Blood Safety Programme, to the Ministry of Health (MOH) at a ceremony in Accra for its sustainability. The event, was to formally bring to an end the…
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