HEALTH

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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The Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health with support from Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company has presented assorted items to the Ghana Health Service and implementing partners to step up immunization in the Volta Region. The items; motorbikes,…
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Professor Margaret Gyapong, Director, Centre for Health Policy and Implementation Research, has asked health professionals to endeavour to understand the “language” of patients. She said sometimes, patients visited health facilities not…
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The Minority in Parliament has condemned government for diverting the funds meant for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to pay allowances of trainee nurses. It has also accused the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) of…
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Only 27 per cent of Ghanaians have access to safe and potable water, a 2017 joint monitoring programme report has revealed. According to the report conducted by the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC Ghana), an independent…
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A Deputy Minister for Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu has suggested that the current managers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have proven to be more competent than those under the erstwhile Mahama regime. This he said is…
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The Deputy Minister of Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu has disclosed that government will settle the 1.2 billion cedis debt owed service providers under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by the end of the year. According to Mr…
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