HEALTH

The Lagos state commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, has disclosed that no fewer than 1,131 pregnant women have been tested positive to the dreaded and incurable HIV disease. Speaking at a ministerial news conference in Alausa, Lagos…
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The vice president of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has said government does not have any responsibility to find the teeming unemployed graduate nurses across the country jobs. His comments come after the Coalition for Public Trained…
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The Pharmacy Council has said its investigations have revealed wanton abuse of codeine cough syrup by the youth in Ghana. Christian Trebi Quaio, the Regional head of the Council, told Luv News their findings indicate a combination of…
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Some unemployed nurses who are against the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCO) initiative launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, have said they are disappointed in the government. According to them, they were promised a permanent…
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Former President John Mahama wants the Nana Akufo-Addo government to rethink its decision to cap some statutory funds insisting it is badly affecting the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). He said it is tragic that the Akufo-Addo…
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Members of the Coalition of Unemployed Private Nurses are expected to hit the streets of Accra today, Monday, 7 May 2018. The group is opposing attempts by government to enroll it members into the Heal Ghana module of the Nation Builders…
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Mr Isaac Newton, a Senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Hygiene of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, has slammed Ghana’s uneven Environmental Health Officer (EHO) to a population ratio, describing it as ‘troubling’ and ‘serious’. He said…
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Members of the Medicine Practitioners and Sellers Association in the Ashanti Region have pledged to end the sale of Tramadol at their counters. The members say they are worried over the continuous abuse of the painkiller by some Ghanaian…
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The Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) says HIV/AIDS is still prevalent in Ghana and has charged the media to intensify the fight against the disease through their platforms. Speaking at a training workshop for Greater Accra Health Reporters in…
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A team of security operatives and officials of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) yesterday arrested 10 peddlers for allegedly selling harmful medicines at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region. The peddlers were arrested at the Ashaiman…
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