HEALTH

A multi-million health facility built by the erstwhile NDC government in Ofankor in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra region is rotting away. The facility has not been operationalised and residents are questioning why. The…
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The Newmont Golden Ridge Limited, Akyem Mines, has donated two incubators and refurbished a room in the Abrim Government hospital to house the incubators. The GH¢67,859.00 project was to improve neonatal healthcare delivery and curb…
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The United Nations Health Agency has said obsessively playing of video games now qualifies as a mental health condition. In its latest revision to a disease categorisation manual, copied to the Ghana News Agency, it confirmed the fears…
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Residents of Techiman Krobo in the Brong Ahafo region are opposing the transfer of the embattled former principal of the Tepa nursing and midwifery training college Victoria Amoah to the Techiman Krobo nursing training college. Victoria…
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The Ga West Municipal Assembly is spending some 1.2 million Ghana cedis to operationalize the abandoned Ofankor Health Centre. The health centre which was constructed two years ago by the government with funding from the African…
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Prekese or Tetrapleura tetraplera is a native of west tropical Africa and belongs to the pea family. The fruits of the plant have a pungent aromatic odor due to which it also possesses insect repellent properties. It is primarily used as…
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Dr. Emanuel Kofi Amponsah, the Medical Director of the Sunyani Regional Hospital (SRH) has cautioned that the use of mobile phones during working hours at health facilities is a breach of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Code of Conduct.…
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A 2-year-old baby girl has died at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital in Accra due to the unavailability of a CT scan and other facilities at the referral centre. Father of the baby, Richard Yaw Asante, told Chief Jerry Forson on the Ghana…
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Pressure group OccupyGhana has described as appalling the unavailability of a “functioning and coordinated Emergency Response System” in Ghana’s health system, thus, “People who need emergency care simply cannot call for help”. In a…
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Long waiting times and inconvenience of travelling long distances to NHIS District Offices to renew membership will soon be a thing of the past as NHIA introduces a new innovation using mobile phones with a short code for renewal of…
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