HEALTH

Get vaccinated – GHS urges Ghanaians as Covid-19 active cases rise

June 6, 2022

The Ghana Health Service is worried efforts at containing the spread of Covid-19 are being frustrated by the unwillingness of most Ghanaians to get vaccinated. In an interview with Bernard Avle on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Franklin Asiedu Bekoe said “Covid-19 cases have risen over […]Continue Reading

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Tips on periodental disease and how to avoid it

June 6, 2022

Pepsodent Ghana’s Dental TV Show, Time with the Dentist is back with yet another interesting season and on this first episode of season 2, Dr. Gwendolyn Amarquaye-Bayitse has outlined ways to prevent periodontal disease, a common canker among many Ghanaians. According to her, Periodontal disease is a disease of the gum caused by plaque – a sticky film that forms on the Continue Reading

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Minority’s call for COVID-19 expenditure audit needless – Kwaku Kwarteng

June 6, 2022

Chairman of the Finance Committee of Parliament, Kwaku Kwarteng has attributed the calls by the Minority side for a parliamentary audit into COVID-19 expenditure as an attempt to impugn government’s positive record on managing the pandemic. A motion from the Minority was rejected in the last meeting of the house but last week, the group […]Continue Reading

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Zoomlion celebrates World Environment Day

June 6, 2022

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has organised a massive clean up exercise in Madina in the La Nkwantanang Municipality in Accra to create public awareness on environmental sanitation in commemoration of World Environment Day. The activities included weeding on the shoulders of the principal streets, manual and mechanical sweeping of the roads, waste collection as well as […]Continue Reading

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Covid cases up; Greater Accra leads – GHS

June 6, 2022

Ninety percent of new cases of coronavirus being recorded in Ghana are from the Greater Accra Region, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The Service says the ten percent is from seven other regions in the southern sector. The GHS has recorded 62 new cases for the past two weeks and, according to them, […]Continue Reading

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Bereaved Families Decry 20% Development Levy Charges …On Dead Bodies 37 Military Hospital Charging Dead Bodies …20% Development Fee; Families Angry

June 2, 2022

The Anchor has established that the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, one of the nation’s revered referral medical institutions has been levying corpses deposited at its morgue some 20 per cent extra fees termed as ‘Hospital Development Fee’ which many decry. The paper’s checks reveal the hospital has, indeed, been surcharging the levy on relatives […]Continue Reading

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Couple disappointed as wife on contraceptive gives birth to quadruplets

June 2, 2022

A father of seven has narrated how the much-talked about family planning contraception has failed him as his wife conceived and recently gave birth to quadruplets. City & Crime reports that Mr and Mrs Christopher Agbo who live at Sabon-Tasha, Gwagwa, an Abuja suburb, were blessed with quadruplets last Thursday at a private clinic in […]Continue Reading

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Nurses, midwives paying between GHS15K and GHS20K for postings – RNMAG president

June 1, 2022

The president of the Rotational Nurses and Midwives Association of Ghana, Mr Jerry Martins Aziamati, has called on the government to eradicate the corruption that has plagued the posting of nurses and midwives at the ministry of health. According to him, the ministry is engrossed in corruption as far as the posting of nurses and […]Continue Reading

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Over 3,000 nurses have migrated from Ghana for greener pastures this year; GRNMA blames government

June 1, 2022

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) says over 3,000 nurses and midwives have left the country to seek greener pastures since the beginning of the year. The Association attributes the high rate of migration of health professionals to unfair salary scales and poor conditions of service. There are fears hospitals and health centres […]Continue Reading

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‘We have only 12 neurosurgeons serving the country’s population’ – Neurology Society of Ghana laments

May 31, 2022

President of the Neurology Society of Ghana, Dr Albert Akpalu, has expressed worry about the shortage of medical professionals in their field within the country. He says the low number of neurosurgeons in the country has contributed to the gap in treatment of diseases and conditions that affect the human nervous system. Speaking to JoyNews […]Continue Reading