HEALTH

The Tokokoe Community in the Ho Municipality has inaugurated a Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound to improve primary health in the area. The completion of the facility was marked with a colorful durbar and massive…
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The Upper West Regional Hospital is in dire need of government’s attention and support to address the facility’s human and logistical constraints hindering effective healthcare delivery. The challenges facing the Hospital have caught the…
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Some Parents of children with cerebral palsy could not hide their joy when they received equipment to enable them to practice home-based therapy to keep their children in the right posture. More than 30 parents converged at the Multikids…
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The Local Government Service says it would be unable to employ some 500 unemployed School of Hygiene (SoH) graduates until it receives financial clearance from the Finance Ministry. Graduates of the SoH across the country on Tuesday,…
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Dr Sybil Pentsil, a Paediatric Academic Hospitalist, has urged healthcare facilities in the country to take a cue from the medical mishap in Kenya, which resulted in a brain surgery being performed on the wrong patient. She said there was…
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The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has rubbished as untrue allegations by the Minority in Parliament that the Authority is diverting funds meant for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to pay allowances of trainee…
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A medical outreach programme to provide free medical care for underprivileged Ghanaians has been launched in Accra. The outreach programme which was launched last Sunday at the Kempinski Gold Coast City in Accra was dubbed “Restoring…
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AngloGold Ashanti through the Iduapriem Community Trust Fund has commissioned the Wangarakrom Health Centre which has been named “Nana Kobina Angu II Health Centre.” It was constructed at a cost of GH¢677,000.00 on a land donated by the…
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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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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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