HEALTH

The Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu has assured to amicably resolve the current impasse at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central region. His comments come after Staff of the Psychiatric Hospital abandoned inmates at the…
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Management of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital has denied authorising a mass premature discharge of its mental patients in connection with a sit-down strike by nurses beginning today, Thursday, 23 November 2017.Media reports earlier this…
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Staff of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have laid down their tools in demand for the removal of the hospital’s Medical Director, Dr Eugene Dordoye. They have thus closed the Out-Patient Department of the facility…
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The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, has given a facelift to the Women’s Infirmary Ward of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. The Minister fixed hanging roofs at the ward, replaced old louvres with…
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Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene and Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for increased funding for research into tropical medicine. He said the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research…
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Yaw Attah Arhin, Technical Coordinator, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) has called on government to prioritize sanitation and increase its budget for the sector. According to him, government’s lack of prioritizing the sector has…
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Accra Brewery Ltd. (ABL) has extended its Alcohol and Pregnancy Programme to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) as part of its efforts to create a Healthier World. The Programme sensitises pregnant women on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum…
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The Upper East Region on Friday marked the World Prematurity day at the Tanga-Poore Community in the Bongo District with a call on stakeholders, particularly traditional rulers and community members to ensure that women go for antenatal and…
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Hundreds of school Pupils in the Cape Coast Metropolis on Sunday defied their usual church service and marched through the principal streets to re-echo the need to end the menace of open defecation. Supervised by dozens of teachers…
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A paediatric nurse at the Apinto Government Hospital in the Tarkwa Nsueam Constituency, Madam Gladys Mawuse Fummey, has advised women to adopt the habit of regularly examining their own breasts. She said examining the breast monthly was…
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