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Intravenous Infusion Company Calls on NHIS to Pay GH¢10m Debt
The Intravenous Infusion PLC, manufacturers of pharmaceutical products, has made a distress call to the government to pay GH¢10 million owed the company after the supply of infusions to hospitals under the National Health Insurance Scheme…
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Project GHc1 Launched to Save Breast Cancer Patients
As part of efforts to support women with breast cancer, a fund has been launched to raise money for their treatment.
The initiative dubbed: ‘One cedi to save a Breast and a Life’, is to help make treatments not covered under the National…
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GHS Releases Vehicles for NTD Project in Selected Districts
As part of the efforts to control, eliminate and eradicate skin-related Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has released some vehicles to support the 15 participating districts and their three National…
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GHS Moves to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases
The fight to control and eradicate skin-related neglected tropical diseases has been given added momentum by the acquisition of a fleet of vehicles and motorbikes in support of the national programme.
These cost US$600,000.00 and were…
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Association Launches Campaign Against Neonatal Jaundice
The Ghana Paediatric Association has launched a campaign to raise awareness of neonatal jaundice - a common condition, requiring immediate medical evaluation in a newborns to prevent permanent brain damage and other physical disabilities.…
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Weed Out Quack Herbal Doctors ― Yilo Klo Chief
Quackery is a health scam that brings to the doorstep of desperate persons seeming solutions that are most likely to steal their health―the most priceless of all gifts.
It is for this reason that the Konor of Yilo Klo state, Oklepeme…
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UNDP Donates to Five Health Facilities
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has donated non-incineration waste management technologies (autoclaves) and waste bins to some selected health facilities in the country.
The beneficiary hospitals are Cape Coast Teaching…
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FDA Intercepts Buses with Drugs
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in the Volta Region has intercepted two KIA buses loaded with drugs at Sogakofe border.
The buses, with registration numbers GT 4936 18 and GT 4503 17 were transporting the drugs worth GHC100,000.00…
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Be Professional – Prof Advises Surgeons
Professor of Cardiology, Nicholas Ossei-Gerning, has charged heart surgeons in the country to adhere to stringent professionalism to rescue cardiovascular patients from premature deaths.
His call comes at a time that the World Health…
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Hygiene Students to March Over ‘Allawa’
School of Hygiene students are threatening to hit the streets over the failure of government to restore their allowance that was scrapped in 2015.
The students from Ho, Tamale and Accra Schools of Hygiene last year, embarked on a series…
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