HEALTH

The Minister for Health, Kweku Agyeman-Manu has announced that trachoma, a visual impaired disease, has been eliminated from the country. Addressing the press yesterday in Accra, he said “Ghana has officially been given the World Health…
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A total of 6, 269 teenage pregnancies were recorded in the Ashanti Region between January and June, this year, Dr. Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, Ghana Health Services (GHS), has disclosed. Out of this,…
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Excerpts from the 2018 World Breastfeeding week reveals that despite the country’s effort in promoting exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), continuing rates have deteriorated in the recent times. Speaking at a news briefing and media…
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You may crave for the weekend so you get that extra few hours of much-needed sleep. But it turns out sleeping longer than the recommended seven or eight hours a night could be doing you more harm than good, experts have warned. New…
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Doctors at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) say a 7-year-old boy who is suffering from severe skin and mucous membrane disorder is responding to treatment. They say Emmanuel Ameyaw’s condition known medically as Stevens-Johnson…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) will today present a certificate to Ghana to congratulate the country on becoming the first sub-Saharan country in Africa to eliminate blinding trachoma. In June this year, WHO announced that Ghana had…
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The PUBLISHER’s Health Desk, has in several editions highlighted the miseries that the condition―Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) puts its victims through. Having understood what the disease is, its cause and symptoms, our resource…
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A premeditated plan by members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to embark on an indefinite industrial action has been called off. This decision, according to the President of the Association, Dr. Frank Ankobea follows government’s…
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The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has set aside a roadmap it adopted that could lead to the withdrawal of outpatient services by August 6. President of the Association, Dr Frank Ankobea, told Joy News they have decided to suspend the …
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The Nsuta Circuit Court in the Sekyere Central District has sentenced a 19-year-old farmer to 15 years imprisonment for illegally trading in Tramadol. Dada Musah, a resident of Ejura, pleaded guilty to the charge of dealing in prohibited…
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