HEALTH

Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Minister of Health, has warned that Ghana risked not achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Three, if access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Rights of People with Disabilities (PWDs), were…
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Government through various sector agencies has formulated the Ghana Family Planning Actions for Accelerated Policy to ensure universal coverage of services by 2020 to control the number of child births. The policy seeks to boost…
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Medical Practitioner and member of Occupy Ghana, Michael Segbefia, has dismissed reports suggesting that the Korle Bu Hospital is battling with the no bed syndrome. There were instances recently at Korle Bu where some people had to buy…
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Twenty-eight preterm babies have so far died at the St Theresa’s Hospital at Nkoransa in the Nkoransa Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region, due to the absence of an incubator. The St. Theresa’s Hospital at Nkoransa established in 1972,…
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The month of September has specifically been set aside as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) awareness month but unfortunately not many women in Ghana are aware of this, talk-less of what the PCOS condition is about. For this reason, the…
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The President of Aglow International, Mrs. Dorothy Danso, has commended Breast Care International (BCI) for its advocacy work in dealing with breast cancer cases in Ghana. BCI has been organizing free breast screening exercises…
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President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) Kweku Asante Krobea has stated that though not a written policy, it is always advisable for nurses to wear their uniforms only when they are carrying out their…
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Doctors in the country are threatening an indefinite industrial action, effective Monday, 6 August 2018, if government fails to resolve challenges with their salaries. According to the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), doctors in the…
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Epilepsy cases in Upper West have more than doubled in the last two years and the prevailing trend indicates that the figure is likely to further rise in 2018. Reports of recorded cases of epilepsy in the Wa Municipality were 27 in 2016…
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“Power of Hope”, an annual publication of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church of Ghana, has been launched at the Pantang Hospital in the Adenta Municipality. This yearly book publicized under the auspices of the Worldwide SDA churches…
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