HEALTH

Some health personnel in the Nkwanta South District of the Volta region have expressed worry over the continuous reliance on traditional and customary practices in making health decisions mostly ineffective. Reverend Sister Georgina…
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The Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Kingsley Aboagye-Gyedu has revealed that despite government's efforts to provide medical professionals with proper remuneration, an alarming number of them still abandon their duties to seek better…
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Director of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Asiedu Bekoe, has revealed that the Antiviral drugs ―Tamiflu needed for the treatment of the deadly H1N1 Influenza which claimed the lives of some students at the Kumasi…
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The Health Minister has dismissed assertions that congestion as a result of implementing the free SHS policy is the cause of disease outbreaks recorded in some Senior High Schools across the country. Kwaku Agyeman Manu says the death…
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The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has refuted claims that there is a meningitis outbreak in the country. According to the Service, the deaths of some students from meningitis in recent weeks are isolated cases that do not constitute an…
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The Ashanti Regional Branch of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has destroyed expired items worth thousands of cedis. The items include damaged products, which were either withdrawn from the market by the FDA or submitted by the…
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Dr Kwaku Agyemang Manu, the Minister of Health, on Friday said the issue of medical brain drain continued to be a major concern to the government and the people of Ghana. He said available statistics indicated that since 1996 about 5,000…
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Ghana will today take delivery of the anti-viral agents Tamiflu from the World Health Organization, as part of measures to combat the threat posed by the 2009 H1N1 strain of influenza, also known as swine flu. Vaccines for the swine flu…
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THE MOTHER and Baby Unit (MBU), being built at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, will be ready for public use in January, 2018. The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo’s foundation, dubbed ‘Rebecca Foundation’, is the brain…
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The Ghana Association of Medical Herbalists (GAMH), has charged private herbal centres in the country, not to handle suspected cases of Meningitis and H1N1 reported to their facilities. According to them, there are currently no certified…
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