HEALTH

Dr Timothy Letsa, the Volta Regional Director of Health Services, has commended the Ho Municipal Hospital for transforming the facility from a “deathbed” to a preferred healthcare centre. Dr. Letsa who was inaugurating a newly…
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After hitting the streets in protest to demand payment of allowances due them, the students of the School of Hygiene (SoH) have embarked on an indefinite strike. The strike action which started on Monday, December 4, 2017 is as…
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The Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services (CRS), a technologically driven, total physical rehabilitation service provider has developed the Limb Project to seek sponsorship for fund to help provide prosthetic rehabilitation services for…
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Ghana has over the last decade recorded significant progress in general public health care delivery and also a major decline in the malaria prevalence from the high level of over 50 per cent in 2012 to 20.4 per cent in 2016.…
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Health experts who are investigating the cause of death of students at the Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) suspect Meningitis, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, Minister of Health has said. He told Parliament on Tuesday, 5 December that: “As I speak, the…
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An estimated 1 in 10 medical products circulating in low- and middle-income countries is either substandard or falsified, according to new research from the World Health Organisation (WHO). This means that people are taking medicines…
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The Association of Health Services Administrators, Ghana, is calling for an end to the seeming politicization of their position at Teaching Hospitals in the Country. According to the Association, Government “must not allow certain…
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The government has been asked to do more to sustain the anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, to slow down the spread of infection of the disease. Mrs. Cecelia Senoo, Executive Director of Hope for Future Generations (HFFG), an NGO, said everything…
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Ghana recorded 80 per cent rise in new HIV infections in the year 2016, the UNAIDS Country Director in Ghana, Ms Angela Trenton-Mbonde has disclosed.She said new HIV infections declined in children by 46 per cent but increased among adults…
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Taking ‘heavy breakfast’ apparently does not promote healthy living. This is the view of the President of the Vegetarian Association of Ghana, Dr. Kofi Asare, who says the perception of taking heavy food in the morning for breakfast is a…
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