HEALTH

Fifteen months after an election campaign which featured many historic commitments, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government may soon be under pressure to move ahead with what it had promised. Outspoken and controversial Professor of…
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Government has been urged to invest in medical plants and include it in the Planting for Food and Job Programme to boost the pharmaceutical industry in the country. Professor Yaw Opoku-Boahen, a Professor of Natural Products Organic…
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Ghana will soon train nurses, midwives, pharmacists and medical doctors in homeopathy. C4C Homeopathic Medical College is partnering the Education Center for Classical Homeopathy (ECCH) in the Netherland and the Ministry of Health in…
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Health and Safety Ghana (HESAG), Ghana’s premier health and safety think tank, has called for the establishment of an independent Occupational Safety and Health Authority in Ghana. The body would be responsible for the development,…
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The Ghana AIDS Commission has set May 8-11 for the fourth National HIV and Research Conference (NHARCON) to enable players in the sector to discuss up-to-date research and evaluation findings. The conference would also assess the…
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Mrs Samira Bawumia, Wife of the Vice President, says in the face of declining resources for development agencies, civil society organisations and regional communities need to adopt innovative approaches to end Tuberculosis, Malaria and…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned members of the Ghana Federation for Traditional Herbal Medicine Practitioners Association (GAFTRAM) against the use of unregistered medical devices, whether imported or locally manufactured.…
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A team of US doctors has successfully carried out the world’s first total transplant of a penis and scrotum. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, performed the operation on a soldier who had been wounded by a bomb…
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The Yendi Area of the Church of Pentecost, headed by Apostle William Kojo Edzorhoho, has renovated the Kandin Health Centre in the Tatale-Sanguli District of the Northern Region. The renovation, which cost the Church a total of…
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The Western Regional Office of the Food and Drugs Authority has so far seized more than 6,000 capsules of Tramadol from licensed chemical stores across the length and breadth of the Region. Tramadol, a synthetic narcotics drug, used to…
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