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Scale Up Advocacy on Mental Health
Acting Upper West Regional Minister Amidu Chinnia Issahaku, has called for the stepping up of advocacy on mental health to protect the rights of mental health patients.
Their human rights should not continue to be violated at homes and…
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Cape Coast Teaching Hospital Prioritises Maternal and Child Health Care
The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH), the only referral facility in the Central Region has instituted a new policy whereby expectant and new mothers as well as their babies will be provided with nurses solely responsible for them to…
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NGOs in Health Support Immunization in Volta Region
The Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health with support from Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company has presented assorted items to the Ghana Health Service and implementing partners to step up immunization in the Volta Region.
The items; motorbikes,…
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Health Professionals Must Understand Patients – Prof. Gyapong
Professor Margaret Gyapong, Director, Centre for Health Policy and Implementation Research, has asked health professionals to endeavour to understand the “language” of patients.
She said sometimes, patients visited health facilities not…
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Stop Diverting NHIS Funds to Pay Trainee Nurses – Minority to Gov’t
The Minority in Parliament has condemned government for diverting the funds meant for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to pay allowances of trainee nurses.
It has also accused the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) of…
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Only 27 Per Cent of Ghanaians Access Potable Water – Report
Only 27 per cent of Ghanaians have access to safe and potable water, a 2017 joint monitoring programme report has revealed.
According to the report conducted by the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC Ghana), an independent…
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Managers of NHIS More Competent Now
A Deputy Minister for Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu has suggested that the current managers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have proven to be more competent than those under the erstwhile Mahama regime.
This he said is…
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NHIS Debt: Less Than GH₵200m Arrears Left of GH₵1.2bn Sum – Deputy Health Minister
The Deputy Minister of Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu has disclosed that government will settle the 1.2 billion cedis debt owed service providers under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by the end of the year.
According to Mr…
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GCB Bank Commissions Dialysis Unit at 37 Military Hospital
GCB Bank has commissioned a state-of-the-art Renal Dialysis Unit at the 37 Military Hospital.
The new dialysis unit, which was fully sponsored by GCB Bank Limited at a total cost of USD 232,000, comprises six dialysis machines, two…
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Two Ambulances for Over A Million People; U/East Cries for Help
Ali Baba Awini, the Upper East Regional Administrator of the National Ambulance Service on Monday appealed to government and NGOs in the country to support the region with ambulances.
He said the Upper East Region, with a population of…
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