HEALTH

The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, will on Friday, January 19, commission the newly built Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), in Kumasi. The project, initiated within her first year in office,…
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Dr Christopher Boatbel, the Talensi District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Upper East Region has appealed to the traditional council and the Assembly members to protect persons with mental disorders from abuse. He said the Traditional…
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Madam Leticia Ackun, Water, Sanitation and Health (WASH) Specialist, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appealed to government to up the success chalked by the implementation of “tippy tap” in the Volta Region and scale it up…
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The management of the Kaneshie Polyclinic has called on the government to complete a multipurpose building for the hospital, which has been abandoned for 14 years. The Medical Director of the polyclinic, Dr Patrick Amo-Mensah, who made…
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Ghana is to train Sierra Leonean enrolled nurses and midwives in a two-year Registered Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery programmes. Ghana’s Ministry of Health in partnership with the Nursing and Midwifery Council has therefore signed a…
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The Ghana Health Service (GHS), in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES), has begun a nationwide medical screening for students in the Senior High Schools (SHSs). First year students enrolled under the Free SHS policy have…
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All public health facilities and institutions across the nation would have to register and get licensed by the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA) at the end of June, this year. This is in line with the Memorandum of…
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Professor Saa Dittoh, a Former Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has stated that nutrition is the main determinant of development and not Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as being championed by Economists.…
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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has destroyed 12 tonnes of expired products including medicines, baby foods, beverages, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, herbal products and cosmetics seized during the Christmas festivities. The…
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In the quest to reduce harm, save lives or to quench a thirst of desperation, many are rethinking the treatment of HIV and AIDS seem to be buying into an unproven theory that herbal medicines could be or is the cure to the age-long disease.…
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