HEALTH

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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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 Rebecca Foundation has donated various medical equipment to some hospitals and health facilities in the three Northern Regions. The gesture forms part of the efforts of the First Lady’s Foundation, to help bridge medical supplies…
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The Ghana Health Service, 5th Governing Council has proposed a reinsurance policy for its entire staff to ensure their welfare. The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare disclosed this during the…
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The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has proposed new taxes on tobacco and alcohol to raise further revenue to fund the scheme. At the meet-the-press in Wa recently, the regional director of the scheme, Mr. Abass Suleymana,…
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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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