Health
19th April, 2010
Vice President John Dramani Mahama has announced that the actuarial studies on how to implement the one-time payment of premium for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is ready.
Government ...
16th April, 2010
The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) is to collaborate with the Food and Drugs Board to address the problem of drug peddling on commercial vehicles and markets in the Ashaiman municipality.
Numo ...
15th April, 2010
The Accra Psychiatric Hospital is to be decongested with the relocation of some of the inmates to Pantang and Ankaful Psychiatric Hospitals in the Greater Accra and Central Region respectively.
The ...
15th April, 2010
The Management if Ecobank Limited on Monday, presented hospital equipment (patients monitor) to the Ridge Hospital in Accra.
The monitor is used to assess or monitor patient’s saturation blood ...
13th April, 2010
Kwadwo B. Donkor, Kumasi.
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Hospital in Kumasi, has for the past three years recorded no case of maternal death.
That feat, ...
13th April, 2010
The Ashanti Regional Health directorate says it has so far recorded four (4) cases of the pandemic influenza H1N12009, popularly known as the swine flu, since its outbreak last year.
It said the ...
10th April, 2010
The Volta Regional Branch of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) is to raise funds to construct a Nursing Training School to reduce the burden on facilities at the community nursing and ...
9th April, 2010
A Clinical Study conducted by the Cuban Medical Brigade showed that Hepatitis B is a major challenge to health care delivery services in the Upper West Region.
The study conducted at the Jirapa and ...
9th April, 2010
THE Minister of Health, Dr Benjamin Kumbour, has commended members of the Nandom Youth Forum, a local NGO, for mobilizing resources to cater for the health needs of the people of Nandom and its ...
9th April, 2010
Waving of handkerchiefs at church could spread H1N1 Flu
Dr. Joseph Nuertey, Cape Coast Metropolitan Director of Health Services has appealed to the public to take practical steps to curtail the ...
8th April, 2010
Ghana yesterday joined the rest of the world to mark World Health Day which was instituted by the World Health Organisation in 1948.
The day is set aside annually to draw attention to global health ...
7th April, 2010
A free Medical Screening has been organised by the Methodist Church Ghana lay movement Council at Krokoshwe a district in Ga South as part of their Social responsibilities.
The Superintendent ...
7th April, 2010
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and the Ghana Health Service, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health have warned of a threat of possible outbreak of Influenza H1N1 (Swine ...
6th April, 2010
Following the refusal of Ghanaian doctors to accept transfers to the Upper West Region, a seven-member Cuban Medical Brigade team has been posted to the region to provide health care delivery services ...
6th April, 2010
A total of 83 students of the Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast have so far been treated for the Pandemic Influenza H1N1.
The number included the 10 confirmed cases of infection among the students ...
6th April, 2010
Activities at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital came to a halt last Thursday as President John Evans Atta Mills paid a visit to familarise himself with the challenges confronting the hospital.
The ...
6th April, 2010
The Rotary Club of Accra-Airport, has donated a total of GH¢15,000 to the Mathew \"25\" House, an HIV/AIDS centre in Koforidua.
The amount would enable the centre to defray debts owed to health ...
31st March, 2010
Zenith Bank Ghana Limited has embarked on a health and fitness walk through some principal streets in the Accra metropolis over the weekend.
According to the managing director of the bank, Mr. ...
28th March, 2010
One hundred and sixty people in the Upper West Region who lost their sight through various infections and eye diseases have their sight restored following operations by a team of ophthalmologists. ...
26th March, 2010
VICE President John Dramani Mahama has observed that the lack of awareness and knowledge about risk factors has contributed immensely to the poor state of health of many Ghanaians.
He said most ...