HEALTH

As part of the efforts to control, eliminate and eradicate skin-related Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has released some vehicles to support the 15 participating districts and their three National…
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The fight to control and eradicate skin-related neglected tropical diseases has been given added momentum by the acquisition of a fleet of vehicles and motorbikes in support of the national programme. These cost US$600,000.00 and were…
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The Ghana Paediatric Association has launched a campaign to raise awareness of neonatal jaundice - a common condition, requiring immediate medical evaluation in a newborns to prevent permanent brain damage and other physical disabilities.…
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Quackery is a health scam that brings to the doorstep of desperate persons seeming solutions that are most likely to steal their health―the most priceless of all gifts. It is for this reason that the Konor of Yilo Klo state, Oklepeme…
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has donated non-incineration waste management technologies (autoclaves) and waste bins to some selected health facilities in the country. The beneficiary hospitals are Cape Coast Teaching…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in the Volta Region has intercepted two KIA buses loaded with drugs at Sogakofe border. The buses, with registration numbers GT 4936 18 and GT 4503 17 were transporting the drugs worth GHC100,000.00…
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Professor of Cardiology, Nicholas Ossei-Gerning, has charged heart surgeons in the country to adhere to stringent professionalism to rescue cardiovascular patients from premature deaths. His call comes at a time that the World Health…
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School of Hygiene students are threatening to hit the streets over the failure of government to restore their allowance that was scrapped in 2015. The students from Ho, Tamale and Accra Schools of Hygiene last year, embarked on a series…
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The residents of five cocoa growing communities in the Sunyani Municipality have appealed to the Municipal Assembly to intervene for the operationalisation of the Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) Compound in the area. The…
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Dr George Nana Brown, Dean of City of London Dental School Post Graduate Programme in West Africa has observed that the neglect of dental education in Ghana was increasing general disease burden. He said the mouth remained a major…
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