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1st September, 2010
Vice President John Mahama has made a call for support for the National Health Insurance Scheme as it continues to grow and deepen its social healthcare programme towards universal care for Ghanaians ...
31st August, 2010
About 274,000 deaths occur annually worldwide due to cervical cancer, with 80 per cent of them occurring in developing countries including Ghana, says Mrs. Ernestina Naadu Mills, the First ...
31st August, 2010
Mr. Vishal Kaul of UNICHEM gracefully welcomes Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, to the UNICHEM stand during the exhibition of pharmaceutical products in Kumasi with them are Mr. Rojo ...
24th August, 2010
A campaign to improve the health of Ghanaian children and women by increasing access to family planning services and information was launched in Accra yesterday.
Dubbed “Life Choices,” it will ...
24th August, 2010
THE National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has started a mass registration programme to sensitise subscribers to the need to renew their cards and encourage non-subscribers to register with the ...
20th August, 2010
A workshop on Best Practices in Health Procurement and Supplies Management for officials of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital is being held in Accra.
It is expected that at the end of the workshop, key ...
18th August, 2010
Oskan Challis Foundation, a non-governmental organization has kick-started a malaria awareness project in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region.
The project, codenamed Mobilize Against ...
16th August, 2010
President Mills says the 54 per cent of payment made by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) on the cost of medicine for clients under the National Health Insurance Scheme is unsustainable. ...
13th August, 2010
The European Union (EU) has made available 400,000 dollars to the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) as technical grant, being part of the Union’s contribution to the Ghana’s response to the HIV and AIDS ...
10th August, 2010
The Management of the Nkenkaasu Government Hospital has built two semi-detached bungalows to help ease the acute accommodation problem facing its staff.
Valued at GH˘60,000, the bungalows were ...
27th July, 2010
United States President Barrack Obama yesterday assured Ghana of more support from his government to help the country combat common diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS.
“Ghana and the ...
20th July, 2010
The management of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital near Accra, has been relieved of the huge burden of non- access to adequate water following the successful drilling of two mechanized boreholes for ...
14th July, 2010
After the transfer of the OPD unit of the Ridge Hospital Unit to the Adabraka Polyclinic to decongest and ease pressure on the facilities and personnel, the hospital still continue to face challenges ...
13th July, 2010
A new Midwifery Training College will be established by the government at Sampa, capital of Jaman North District in the Brong-Ahafo region.
The move is aimed at improving health delivery and natal ...
12th July, 2010
Ghana has achieved 96 per cent reduction in guinea worm cases and is expected to hit the 100 per cent reduction mark towards completion, Dr Siedu Korkor, Guinea Worm Eradication Programme Manager, has ...
8th July, 2010
THE Food and Drugs Board, (FDB) has warned that an anti-malaria product, ACUMAL JUNIOR which is currently in circulation is injurious to human health.
The general public is, therefore, advised not ...
8th July, 2010
Some Pharmacists have urged on the Food and Drug Board (FDB) to intensify its fight against the influx of sex enhancement drugs in the country.
In separate interviews with the Times, the ...
8th July, 2010
The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) of the United States of America, have begun clinical trial into a new malaria vaccine ...
7th July, 2010
The management of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has awarded a contract for the purchase of 13 modern elevators for installation at major departments in the hospital, including the Maternity Ward ...
6th July, 2010
Five Municipal and District Health Directorates in the Upper East Region chalked above 85 per cent success in the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) last year.
Dr J. Koku Awoonor-Williams, the Regional ...
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Founder and Chairman of Berock Ventures ltd, an indigenous building and civil engineering company, Rockson Dogbegah, has picked up a second award, the ...
