HEALTH

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Yale University, an American private Ivy League research institution, to indicate the country’s commitment to continue with the collaboration. Dr.…
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Dr Bernard Ntim Akoto, Medical Superintendent of the Kokofu General Hospital, has called on Ghanaians to help fight against the stigmatization of leprosy patients. He said the situation where lepers after being cured were sometimes not…
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The Institute of Leadership and Development (INSLA), has called on Ghanaians to reduce their intake of salt (sodium chloride) to avoid high blood pressures, strokes and heart diseases. It said the World Health Organisation (WHO)…
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Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has tasked players in the pharmaceutical industry to work toward making Ghana the go-to destination in all things pharmaceutical for the sub-region. “I urge all the players in the pharmaceutical…
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Open defecation costs the country approximately $79million annually, Mr. Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOEMF), a media advocacy non-governmental organisation said on Monday. In…
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All patients in public health facilities in the Fanteakwa District have been encouraged to test to know their HIV status. This is a strategy being adopted by the Fanteakwa District Health Directorate to help reduce the HIV prevalence in…
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The Ghana Health Service says it is making efforts to secure a ban on the smoking of water-pipe tobacco popularly known as shisha and electronic cigarettes by the middle of  2018. The Principal Research Officer of the…
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Mr Nortey Dua, a Senior Clinical Psychologist, has called on government to invest in the empowerment of persons with Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD) to help them contribute meaningfully to national development. He said…
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The President of the Ghana Kidney Association (GKA), Professor Michael Mante-Kole, has pleaded with the government to come to the aid of kidney disease patients living in Ghana. Professor Mante-Kole, who was speaking at a public lecture…
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The Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) has called for the review of existing health policies and interventions targeted at vulnerable groups as most of these have failed to address their needs. It suggested the harmonisation…
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