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Ghana Introduces ‘Test and Treat’ Policy to Combat HIV
Ghana is now implementing the test and treat policy which is aimed at testing and treating persons diagnosed with HIV instantly at the health facility to ensure that all HIV persons are enrolled unto the antiretroviral medication treatment.…
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Ambulance Service to Begin Recruitment Despite Having Few Ambulances
The Ghana National Ambulance Service will soon begin a process to engage more people despite serving the 29 million Ghanaian population with only 55 functional ambulances.
The Service is currently seeking to recruit people as Emergency…
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Lab Scientists, Doctors Fight Over Control of Hospital Labs
Some doctors and laboratory scientists are tussling over the management of laboratories in various public hospitals across the country.
This has among other things stalled the implementation of a national policy to govern operations of…
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U/East: Nurses Quarters at Nabango Gutted by Fire
Residents of Nabango in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region, would have to seek healthcare outside the town following a fire outbreak that destroyed a nurses quarters at the Nabango CHPS Centre last Sunday.
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Lab Scientists to Withdraw Services
Beginning 21 May 2018, medical laboratory scientists will be withdrawing some services as part of their efforts to push for better working conditions.
According to the scientists, the government has failed to respond to their demand for…
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Korle Bu Doctors Re-Attach Severed Wrist
A team of medical experts at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has successfully conducted a landmark surgery by re-joining the completely severed wrist of a patient.
Mr Victor Atikpo, a factory worker, had his wrist completely chopped off…
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Poor Roads to Blame for Faulty Ambulances – Ambulance Service
The Ghana Ambulance Service says most of its ambulances are faulty because of the bad road networks in the country.
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Monday, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Ambulance Service, (NAS),…
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Jobless Nurses Give Gov’t 2 Weeks to Grant Financial Clearance
The protesting jobless nurses and health professionals have given the government two weeks to act on a petition they submitted to the Health Ministry, demanding their financial clearance and a review of the Heal Ghana module under the…
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Delays in Clearing NHIS Debt Killing Pharmaceutical Companies
The Managing Director of Intravenous Infusions Limited, David Klutse, has called on the government to look for emergency funding for the National Health Insurance Scheme to enable it make prompt payment to its service providers.
This,…
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Ban On Cosmetics: Court Dismisses FDA’s Application
An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Daniel Mensah has dismissed a preliminary application by the Food and Drugs Authority seeking to have a suit filed by the Cosmetics Association Ghana over the ban of some bleaching creams…
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