HEALTH

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has advised the public to intensify preventive measures against the deadly Ebola virus after it resurfaced in DR Congo with five confirmed deaths. The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr.…
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Ghana Health Service has issued an alert over a potential outbreak of cholera in the country. The service in a statement signed by the Director-General, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, said with the onset of the rainy season and other…
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Professional Nursing Assistant Clinical (NAC) and Nurse Assistant Preventive (NAP) would soon benefit from a top-up programme designed to upgrade their current certificate holding status into a Diploma in Midwifery. To ensure this, the…
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The Tin-can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has impounded two containers loaded with Tramadol Hydrochloride (225 milligrams). The drugs that were loaded in 20-feet and 40-feet containers, were imported from India with…
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Ghana has been rated as one of the countries in the world with the worst emergency healthcare services. The country has been labelled as a ‘high medical risk’ country especially for travelers according to the 2018 Health Risk Map by…
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The Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA), has said it is critical to train the next generation of researchers who would contribute to tackling HIV/AIDs and other diseases on the African continent. The group’s newly-elected president,…
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The government of Ghana is dipping its hands into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Fund for other purposes rather than strengthening the health intervention programme, Casiel Ato Forson, former Deputy Minister of Finance and…
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Ghana is now implementing the test and treat policy which is aimed at testing and treating persons diagnosed with HIV instantly at the health facility to ensure that all HIV persons are enrolled unto the antiretroviral medication treatment.…
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The Ghana National Ambulance Service will soon begin a process to engage more people despite serving the 29 million Ghanaian population with only 55 functional ambulances. The Service is currently seeking to recruit people as Emergency…
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Some doctors and laboratory scientists are tussling over the management of laboratories in various public hospitals across the country. This has among other things stalled the implementation of a national policy to govern operations of…
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