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Internal resource deployment key to eliminating malaria – Adansi North Health Director
The Adansi North District Health Director, Isaac Odame Awuku, has urged stakeholders involved in the fight against malaria to put in place strategies that will help in living beyond global support by focusing on internally generated…
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Vodafone assists seven-year-old to undergo surgery of Hirschsprung
Vodafone Ghana through its Healthline program has gone to the aid of seven-year-old Charles who was suffering from Hirschsprung disease; a condition of the large intestine (colon) that causes difficulty in passing stool.
Charles, when…
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FDA partners GIZ to train health workers on vaccine safety knowledge
The Food and Drugs Authorities (FDA), in collaboration with the German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ, has trained three hundred and twenty-eight (328) health professionals made up of doctors, pharmacists, and nurses on vaccine…
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Noguchi gets two genome sequencing equipment from Africa CDC
The Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has handed over two genome sequencing equipment to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) to enhance its research in the public health sector.
The handing over ceremony was…
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Coke and salt do not stop a runny stomach – Medical practitioners clarify
Medical Practitioners have dispelled the notion that coke and salt could stop a runny stomach.
On Episode 4 of Season 10 of the Vodafone Healthline Series, Cardiologist, Aba Folson explained that diarrheas are “self-limiting” thus coke…
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Bliss GVS Ghana donates medicines to KATH, Manhyia hospital
Global Pharmaceutical Company, Bliss GVS Ghana, under its ‘ACT for Africa’ campaign, over the weekend visited Kumasi, where the company donated antimalarial and other essential medicines to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and the…
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Vodafone Healthline rescues 10-year-old victim of defilement
For the past five years, Grace Osei Tutu, a ten-year-old victim of defilement, has never been able to experience her monthly menstruation leading to frequent collapses and other health conditions; but thanks to the Vodafone Healthline…
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Kidney disease among youth on the rise in Ghana – Medical Officers
Medical officials at the Bank Hospital in Accra have revealed the worrying phenomenon of kidney disease among young people.
According to them, the number of young people contracting the disease is rising.
Speaking at the launch of an…
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GIZ to support Ghana manufacture vaccines locally
The German Cooperation (GIZ) has expressed its readiness to support Ghana in the manufacturing of vaccines beginning 2024.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during the State of the Nation Address on March 30, announced that a…
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Create breastfeeding areas at workplaces – UNICEF Ghana
UNICEF Ghana has called on corporate organisations and employers to establish breastfeeding areas at workplaces and further make arrangements for regular breaks to enable breastfeeding employees who decide to bring their babies there to…
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