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4,000 Medical Practitioners To Be Employed
The Ministry of Health has received financial clearance to recruit 4,000 private medical practitioners to work in public health facilities in the country.
Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, Robert Cudjoe, who revealed this said…
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2018 SONA: GHC200m Set Aside For Sanitation
Government is working with various private sector players to improve sanitation in the country, President Nana Akufo Addo has said.
To successfully achieve this goal, the President revealed that government will spend an amount of 200…
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Paga Youth Decry Slow Pace of Work on Health Facility
The Paga Youth Association in the Kassena West District has called on the superintending stakeholders to speed up expansion work on the main health facility in the District.
The youth said the stalled rehabilitation and expansion work…
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Tamale Places Last in OD League Table
The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly, for the second consecutive year, has still led with the highest percentage of people, who defaecate in the open in the Northern Region.
This is according to an assessment of the practice of Open…
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More Women Receive Antenatal Care from Skilled Provider
Mr Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, Deputy Minister of Health on Wednesday disclosed that 97 per cent of women in Ghana receive antenatal care from a skilled provider.
The percentage, he explained increased steadily from 82 per cent in 1988 to 97…
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U/E Regional Hospital Anticipate High Number of Twin Deliveries This Year
The Upper East Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga has delivered eleven twins since the beginning of the year and anticipate delivering about 140 by the end of 2018, the highest in the past five years.
The 206 bed capacity facility for the…
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NHIA to Roll Out E-Payment System to Stamp Out Corruption
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is set to roll out a new electronic transaction system for payments and release of claims by all stakeholders to boost operations.
The move was an integral part of a comprehensive policy…
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N/R: Unemployed Nurses Threaten Demo Over Postings
A Coalition of Unemployed Nursing Graduates in the Northern Zone has issued a final reminder to President Akufo-Addo and the Health Ministry to clear them for postings or face agitations.
The groups – Qualified Nurse Assistant Clinical…
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The Bane of Cervical Cancer
Within a flea’s wink you may notice your vagina feels really wet. It is not that time of the month; yet, out of nowhere you are soaked and dazed―much so that you rush to the bathroom just to be sure what you feel is not your monthly…
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Bleaching Causes Kidney Disease ― FDA Warns
Ghanaians have been cautioned against toning the colour of their skin with bleaching chemicals as it is harmful to their health.
Research has shown that people, who bleach their skin with cosmetics that contain Hydroquinone, can suffer…
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