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24th May, 2010
GHANA is set to kick out guinea worm infestation next year, says the Minister of Health Dr Benjamin Kunbuor.
He said “ a lot of work and resources have gone into the fight against guinea worm ...
22nd May, 2010
Women who bleach their skin have relatively higher chances of suffering from cervical cancer as well as other skin, lung and kidney diseases.
Such women have, therefore, been cautioned against the ...
21st May, 2010
A clinic built by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly for the Oblogo Community in the Ga South Municipal Assembly(GSMA), about six years ago, is now a white elephant as a the assembly and the Oblogo ...
20th May, 2010
The Registrar of the Pharmacy Council, Joseph Nyoagbe, says the country will need 1,238 pharmacists to meet health care expectation from the public.
He outlined some of the expectations as the ...
20th May, 2010
The accuracy of most medical equipment and devices in use at health research centres and hospitals countrywide cannot be trusted.
This is because the authorities of such facilities have failed to ...
17th May, 2010
The President of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Emmanuel Adom Winful, has said that there is a lot of rot going on in the National Health Insurance Scheme which if not checked will do more harm to ...
13th May, 2010
The Medical Officer in charge of the Madina Polycinic, Dr. Afua Twumasi, has said while there are growing signs of progress in the fight to save lives of thousands of mothers and new borns in the ...
12th May, 2010
Professor Kwabena Mante Bosompem, President of Ghana Red Cross Society, has called on citizens to foster the spirit of volunteerism in order to remain close to the community and respond to their ...
12th May, 2010
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has pre-
scribed the consumption of fortified wheat flour and vegetable oil as a means of checking ailments caused by cholesterol.
It has therefore, advised ...
11th May, 2010
Initiatives towards effectively promoting maternal and child health care in the country is receiving a major boost with the intervention of the Planned Population Federation of Korea (PPKK) and local ...
11th May, 2010
THE Chief Psychiatrist of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Akwasi Osei, has predicted a possible collapse of the mental health system within the next three years if steps are not taken to overhaul ...
11th May, 2010
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will now be able to conduct research into paternity testing and genetic diversity studies thanks to the donation of a GH˘600,000 worth of ...
11th May, 2010
A GHC 40,000 eye clinic has been inaugurated at the Asamankese Government hospital.
The clinic is one of four fully equipped eye clinics, funded by the Standard Charted Bank.
The others are ...
11th May, 2010
The Ministry of Health (MOH), has taken delivery of 345 vehicles, valued at 7.3 million dollars, to assist in the health delivery of people in deprived communities.
The vehicles, which were ...
10th May, 2010
THE Minister of Health, Dr Benjamin Kunbuor,
has challenged medical training institutions such as the University for Development Studies (UDS) to develop innovative ways to deal with health ...
3rd May, 2010
CURED Lepers in Leprosaria in the country will soon heave a sigh of relief as government has allocated GH˘481,000 in this year’s District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) for their ...
2nd May, 2010
The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa (AOB) District Chief Executive, Mrs. Georgina Nkrumah Aboah, has called on chiefs in the area to sensitized their people to register with the National Health Insurance Scheme ...
30th April, 2010
A three-day Peer Educators workshop on HIV/AIDS, organized by the Ghana Employers Association (GEA), in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, ended in Accra at the weekend.
It was meant to ...
28th April, 2010
Dr Constance Bart-Plange, the Programme Manager of the National Malaria Control Programme has said that a survey conducted in the country in 2000 showed that 40,000
people died of the disease.
She ...
20th April, 2010
Mr. Emmanuel Kandoh, Presiding Member of the Chereponi District Assembly on Friday appealed to the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to intensify education on the H1N1 influenza to ...
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