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Ghana Signs MoU to Deploy Drone for Health Delivery
The Ministry of Health has signed a Letter of Intent with the developer and operator of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, popularly known as drones, to offer a drone-enabled supply chain solution in Ghana that will ensure secure, reliable and…
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Gov’t Weighing Domestic Options To Fund NHIS – MoH
The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has indicated that with the decreasing Development Assistance for Ghana, the Ministries of Finance and Health are working closely together to identify sustainable sources of domestic revenue to…
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Ghana to Use Drone Technology for Essential Health Services – Veep
The government will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with a health service provider this week that would enable the country to use drone technology to deliver blood supplies and essential medicines to remote communities by September, this…
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37 Hospital Investigates Cause of Pesticide-Related Death of Siblings
The 37 Military Hospital is conducting an investigation into the cause of the death of three little siblings allegedly linked to the use of a spray, Topstoxin, which contains aluminium –phosphide, as its active ingredient.
A source close…
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Pharmacy Council Pushes for Prosecution of Arrested Tramadol Dealers
The Northern Regional Area Manager of the Pharmacy Council, Michael Ennim Ameyaw, has hinted of the trial of two persons arrested in Tamale for selling prescribed only pain relief medicine, Tramadol.
According to him, the suspects,…
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98% of NHIS Debt Paid – Bawumia Insists
The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has insisted that Government has paid 1billion cedis out of the 1.2billion cedis of debt owed NHIS service providers constituting 98% of the total debt paid.
In his keynote address at the 2018…
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MTN to Distribute Treated Nets to Nursing Mothers
MTN Ghana Foundation will distribute Insecticide Treated Nets in commemoration of World Malaria Day on 25th April 2018.
Marking the day under the theme “Ready to Beat Malaria,” MTN staff volunteers will distribute 300 Insecticide Treated…
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‘Gov’t Clears GH¢1Bn Out of GH¢1.2Bn NHIS Inherited Debt’
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has revealed that his administration is reviving the strength of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which, under the Mahama government, was being strangled by debt.
According to President…
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NADMO Urges Authorities in Second-Cycle Institutions to Improve Personal Hygiene
School authorities, particularly at the basic and second-cycle levels, have been cautioned to be responsive to issues relating to personal hygiene to enhance the wellbeing of their pupils and students.
Mr. Frank Duodu, Kumasi…
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Women Who Take Anti-ageing Drugs Get Exposed to Breast Cancer
Older women who take in medication to keep them young and gives them the sense of young feeling stand the risk of contracting breast Cancer.
Dr Emmanuel M. Sowah, the Superintendent of the VRA (VRA) Hospital in Accra, who disclosed this…
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