HEALTH

FOR THE second time, the city of Kumasi is being represented at the World Leaders’ Cancer Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The delegation from Kumasi is being led by the Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Mr.…
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Regional Mental Health Coordinator, Mr Joseph Yere has said that alcoholism is currently a major cause of mental health disorders in the Brong-Ahafo Region. He stated that instances of such cases were gaining alarming proportions and…
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Dr Anthony Nsiah -Asare, Director General of Ghana Health Service, has said breast cancer remains a major public health burden for the global community - the cancer considered universal among women worldwide. He said recent reports…
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First Lady of the United States, Mrs Melania Trump has today donated some items to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital as part of some activities to mark her visit to Ghana. The items, presented to some nursing mothers and babies, are to…
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Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu, Minister of Health, has charged health facilities to intensify public education on preventive health to help reduce the incidence of diseases and ailments in communities. He said sustained public education was…
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The Ghana Police Hospital has resumed operations after the facility was temporarily closed down for a fumigation exercise. The four-day exercise which ended on Monday, 1 October 2018 was to get rid of organisms that are a hindrance to…
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First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo says Ghana has adopted the task shifting and differentiated service delivery with an aim at widening access to HIV and AIDS services. She said that task was expected to help improve the health and…
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The West Akyem Municipal Assembly has passed a bye-law banning the use of passenger vehicles for transporting dead bodies to and from hospital mortuaries. To this effect, vehicles, including taxi cabs found indulging in such brisk and…
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The Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC), has included training on cerebral palsy in its curricula. This was disclosed by a lecturer at the Physiotherapy Department of the University of Ghana, Dr. Gifty Gyamah Nyante. According to Dr.…
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Kokrokoo Charities Foundation has donated two incubators to the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Brong Ahafo Regional Hospital in Sunyani. Mr Kwami Sefa Kayi, founder of the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation and host of the…
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