HEALTH

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare has pledged an unflinching support to the Ghana Association of Quasi Government Health Institutions (GAQHI). He said GHS will provide the Association with all…
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The Health Accounting Staff Association of Ghana (HASAG) has called on government to yield to members’ cry for better salaries and more improved working conditions. Speaking at the Association’s 10th Annual General Conference, the…
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Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has stated that government is developing a policy to promote medical tourism in Ghana to serve the ECOWAS Region. This he said would create the need to retool some of health facilities to embrace…
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Unsafe abortion claims the lives of over 47,000 women globally each year, with Africa recording more than 90 per cent of the total deaths. Frequent, unnecessary and unsafe abortion committed by the youth, as well as the lack of access to…
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Staff of the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital has showered praise on Dr. Felix Anyah, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital for gradually transforming the hospital. According to the staff, the hospital which almost collapsed under the…
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A research fellow at the Nuguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research and the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), Dr. Adwoa Wiredu has stressed on the need for Ghanaians to enhance their immune system…
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IPAS Ghana Youth Advisory Board (YAB), a reproductive health services advocacy organisation, has made a case for the cost of abortion to be covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to make it affordable to all to help save…
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Less than one per cent of the Ghanaian population donates blood to the National Blood Service (NBS); a Senior Blood Programme Officer at the Southern Sector of the Service, Mr Stephen Danso has revealed. This he said, has led to limited…
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The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has launched its fourth National HIV/AIDS Research Conference (NHARCON) 2018 with a call for a rethink and change of HIV/AIDS prevention interventions that are not working. Professor Isabella Quakyi, an…
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The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo joined over 40,000 people in the Eastern Regional capital Koforidua, for the 7th annual breast cancer awareness walk dubbed “Walk for the Cure.” The event which was under the auspices of Breast Care…
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