HEALTH

The United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and its 11 UN agency partners, including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank, have declared March 1, as "Zero Discrimination Day". The UN, therefore, urged each person…
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In spite of the several strategies, put in place to prevent maternal mortality, in the Eastern Region still recorded 108 maternal deaths in 2017 as against 102 and 104 in 2015 and 2016 respectively. This means that approximately nine…
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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the first record case of Lassa Fever in the country at Tema General Hospital. Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service who was speaking to the media in Accra on…
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Embattled Director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Eugene Dordoye, has handed over management of the facility to the Deputy Director of Pharmaceutical Services, David Otuo Serebuor. This follows months of agitation by staff of…
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Ghanaian women are now more afraid of getting pregnant than contracting HIV AIDS, a director of research  Monitoring And Evaluation at the Ghana AIDS Commission has disclosed. According to Kyeremeh Atuahene, in spite of the…
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The Cape Coast Metro Social Welfare Department is expressing worry about the increasing rate of pregnancies among children in the area. According to the department, Cape Coast for instance recorded 25 cases of pregnant children within…
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The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital , has honoured some twenty personalities and organizations at its maiden Board Annual Reception special awards event in Kumasi. The awardees included heads of directorates and units, as well as external…
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The Founder of the Dr. Nyarkotey College of Holistic Medicine, Dr Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, has grabbed for himself, an inviable spot on the Top Africa Healthcare Awards list. According to organisers of the Awards ceremony, Dr Nyarkotey was…
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Health officials at the New Juaben Municipal Health directorate in the Eastern region have expressed worry over what they say is the refusal of persons tested Positive for HIV in the area to be put on drugs. Out of the total 9,599…
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The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has directed that with immediate effect, the peddling of drugs in any form, must not be allowed on the vehicles of its members. In a letter to its branches, and copied to the Ghana News…
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