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21st August, 2009
The government’s aim of reducing poverty and making Ghana a middle income nation can only materialise with a healthy population with a healthy workforce.
“Since this cannot be done by ...
14th August, 2009
The Ministries of Health and the Interior would present to cabinet a detailed report on the status of the Accra Police Hospital, to pave the way for a major rehabilitation of the medical ...
6th August, 2009
Mr Samuel Ohene, head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ghana Medical School, has said that about 20 out of every 100 women are expected to experience depression once in their life ...
5th August, 2009
A six-day motor riders training pro-gramme for selected health personnel from three districts in the Ashanti Region is underway at Nkwawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya District.
The districts are ...
28th July, 2009
“Good health is not only the absence of sick-ness but the total well being of a person”.
This was just one of the many points highlighted by Professor Agyeman Badu Akorsah, a lecturer ...
27th July, 2009
THE Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has released GH¢200,000 to 12 civil society organisations (CSO) to carry out educational programmes on HIV/AIDS in six districts of the Upper West Region. ...
25th July, 2009
SALARY negotiations between the Fair Wages Commission (FWC) and the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) will resume next week, Deputy Chief Executive of the Commission Federick Edusei, hinted the Times on ...
23rd July, 2009
Family Planning could “be one of the best-kept secrets in HIV prevention” and can help governments achieve national and international goals such as those outlined in the United Nations ...
20th July, 2009
Four hundred and fifty staff (450) and health workers of the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital, have filed an ex-parte motion for an order of Garnishee against funds, treasury bills and fixed deposits ...
20th July, 2009
THE Ghana Health Service GHS on Friday launched an exercise to register and licence Traditional Health Practitioners (THP) operating in the country.
The accreditation process follows a ministerial ...
17th July, 2009
Mr Kwame Adinkra Amo, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Registered Nurses’ Association (GRNA), has appealed to nurses to work harder to improve the delivery of quality health care to ...
17th July, 2009
Out of the 20 million Ghanaian population, only 646,175 have so far completed the testing and counselling processes for HIV and AIDS, a report by the Ghana AIDS Commission has disclosed.
Dr. Sylvia ...
16th July, 2009
THE Registrar of the Pharmacy Council, Mr Joseph Nyoagbe, has urged personnel involved in the dispensing of drugs to update themselves regularly to meet current trends and challenges in the ...
16th July, 2009
THE Resident Representative of Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Ghana, Mr. Kunihiro Yamauchi, has advised the public to stop stigmatising and discriminating against people living with ...
15th July, 2009
Dr George Sipah Yankey, Minister of Health, appeared before Parliament yesterday to answer series of questions relating to his ministry.
He told the House that the Mental Health Bill would be sent ...
14th July, 2009
Dr. Aaron Offei, Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Health Services, has appealed to the general public to stop all stigmatisation associated with people living with tuberculosis as that prevented them ...
14th July, 2009
Alhaji Dr. Mohammed Bin Ibrahim, Ashanti Regional Director of Ghana Health Service has urged Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist nurses to intensify outreach programmes to educate people especially ...
8th July, 2009
Mr. Mark Woyongo, the Upper East Regional Minister, has used the opportunity of a chance meeting with pharmacy students to sell his region to health professionals.
He assured health professionals ...
8th July, 2009
A clinical trial to introduce a new drug to eliminate river blindness has been launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in three African countries.
The drug is called Moxidectine, which is ...
7th July, 2009
Ten women suffering from obstetric fistula, have successfully undergone reconstructive surgery at the Bolgatanga Hospital.
Obstetric fistula, a severe medical condition, is a hole created between ...
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