HEALTH

Most of us get around 20% of our water content from food, but the ideal would be to eat the right foods and drink enough water throughout the day, so that we stay properly hydrated. See, dehydration is bad. When we’re not hydrated, we feel…
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Dr Yaw Baah, Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress, has advocated the need for the citizenry to pay higher taxes to fund the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to make it more functional. He recounted his experiences on…
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Empowering Rural Women and Orphans Initiative (ERWOI), a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), has rewarded 36 women from six communities in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region for doing well in child healthcare services. The…
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Malaria related deaths in the Mfantseman Municipality reduced significantly from 22 in 2016 to two in 2017 due to improved case management, the Municipal Health Directorate has said. The period also saw a reduction in institutional…
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Quackery is a health scam that brings to the noses of unlooking and desperate persons seeming solutions that are most likely to purloin their health―the most priceless of all gifts and almost always, death comes decisively. In healthcare…
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The Ejisu-Juaben Municipality is making good progress in the fight to prevent maternal deaths, Mrs. Josephine Ahorsu, the Municipal Health Director, has announced. The number of such deaths in the area was down to two, last year, from…
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Construction of a Soybean Processing Factory has begun at Sang in the Mion District of the Northern Region to process soybean into various food products for children in the district to help boost their nutritional status. The Factory,…
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Mr Delali Nutsukpo, the Greater Accra Regional Director of the Agriculture, has said it is untrue that the Fall Army worm outbreak was developed in foreign laboratories. He said as far back as 1797 in Georgia USA, the worms were…
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Residents of Tetegu in the Weija-Gbawe Constituency in Accra, have expressed their disappointment in the Member of Parliament, Tina Mensah, who also doubles as a Deputy Health Minister over her inability to facilitate the completion of a…
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A health centre which was constructed at Ofankor in the Ga West District of the Greater Accra Region about a year ago, has been abandoned. The facility was constructed by the government of Ghana through the Ministry of Roads and…
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