HEALTH

The Zongo Hausa Youth Association of Ghana has initiated a series of engagements with the ministry of Inner–City and Zongo Development in a bid to curb the rampant abuse of Tramadol drugs. The association has suggested to the ministry…
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The lack of ambulances in the country has been an issue―stalling Ghana’s progress in giving to its citizens, proper and comprehensive health care. The campaign for government to procure more ambulances has since been rekindled following…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has cautioned pregnant women and lactating mothers against using skin lightening agents because they could have adverse effects on their unborn babies. Delese Mimi Darko, the Chief Executive Officer of…
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The burden of oral health diseases remains one of the major national public health challenges in the country because their prevalence is unacceptably high. The prevalence rate ranged from 52 per cent to 68 per cent for periodontal…
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Health advocate, Samuel Arthur, is calling for an overhaul of the country’s emergency response system. His call follows a worrying revelation by the Okyehene that former Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Authur was conveyed to the 37 military…
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana has withdrawn its earlier suspension of training of Nurse Assistant Clinical (NAC) and Nurse Assistant Preventive (NAP) programmes, which it communicated in a letter that said the suspension was to…
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Pharmaceutical firms across the country have agreed to reduce the price of medicines approved for use under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIA) by 30 per cent. This was after government removed VAT and other levies on local and…
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The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has placed a temporary ban on the movement of poultry and poultry products in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Eastern Regions. This follows an outbreak of Bird flu in those areas, leading to the…
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Former Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo, has donated some psychotropic medicines worth €8,000 to the Mental Health Authority, (MHA) in Accra. The donation was done on behalf of Medimex SK and Glenmarck…
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The Public Relations Director of the Ministry of Health (MoH), Mr. Robert Cudjoe has disclosed that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) would soon receive 275 ambulances. This announcement comes after the Paramount Chief of Akyem Abuakwa,…
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