HEALTH

The Head of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr Samuel Annor has called on service providers to stop charging and collecting unapproved fees from clients of the authority. “As service providers, let’s not take advantage of…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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