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2nd October, 2012
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that deaths resulting from road accidents would globally be ranked as the third highest cause of death after heart diseases and depression by 2020, if ...
19th September, 2012
Dr. Joseph Samuel Annan, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industries, has financed the construction of a GH¢45,000 Out Patient’s Department (OPD) for the Komenda Health Centre.
The construction of ...
7th September, 2012
The Sunyani Zonal Officer of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB), Mr Matthew Gyang Nkum, has called on the National Media Commission (NMC) to take appropriate measures against media houses which allow ...
6th September, 2012
Pharmacy shops operating under the Ghana Health Services remained closed on the second day of a strike action called by their umbrella group Government Hospital Pharmacists Association ...
5th September, 2012
A self-styled medical doctor, Joshua Drah, 55, has been arrested by personnel of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for allegedly performing illegal abortion on women.
He sometimes had ...
5th September, 2012
Henceforth, medical practitioners who refuse postings to rural areas will not be paid allowances.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said the refusal of health personnel to accept postings to the rural ...
3rd September, 2012
The Medical Director of the Central Regional Hospital, Dr. Daniel Asare, has appealed for an increase in the number of nurses at the hospital as it prepares to assume the status of a teaching ...
19th July, 2012
Government has released GH₵17,650,455.54 as the first portion of its matching funds in fulfilment of Ghana’s High level commitment to the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Vice President John ...
27th June, 2012
About 50 people, including three children, were on Tuesday rushed to the Nsawam Government Hospital for treatment after eating ‘Waakye’ (boiled rice and beans) suspected to have been poisoned.
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26th June, 2012
The government has allocated one million dollars to fight Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in the country. The diseases include guinea-worm, burili ulcer, guinea worm, onchocerciasis, ...
7th June, 2012
About100 volunteers are being trained by the Ghana Red Cross Society to help reduce the menace of cholera outbreak in the country.
The volunteers who were selected from Accra and Tema will embark ...
29th May, 2012
Dr. Kwasi Yeboah-Awusi, Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Health Service, (GHS) has expressed optimism about a significant drop in malarial cases in the metropolis this year.
He said with the free ...
23rd May, 2012
The Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority NHIA, Mr. Sylvester Mensah has said the Authority is committed to building a scheme that stands out as a model in Africa and ...
23rd May, 2012
The Retired Nurses and Midwives Club (RENAMIC) has launched its 20th anniversary on the theme “Challenges of Retired nurses and midwives, the way forward”.
The club is a voluntary association ...
18th May, 2012
The Minister of Health, Mr. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has commended heads of Health Training Institutions for not resorting to industrial strike action to demand better remuneration and of ...
16th May, 2012
About one billion people across the world suffer from hypertension, which is also called High Blood Pressure, causing about 7.5 million deaths each year.
It is a chronic medical condition during ...
16th May, 2012
A National child nutrition campaign, “Aduane Pa Ma Asetena Pa” (Good Food for Good Life) has been launched in Accra, by the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service.
The campaign which ...
9th May, 2012
The Second National Health, Environment and Safety Conference and Exhibition (CONFEX) will come off this year at the Accra International Conference Centre from Wednesday,May 16 to Saturday, May 19 ...
8th May, 2012
Ghana is set to establish a $200 million plant to manufacture Anti-retroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS patients to save the country the cost of importing them.
The country‘s current import annually ...
7th May, 2012
Mr Alban Bagbin, Minister of Health, on Friday reiterated government commitment to implementing initiatives to reduce maternal mortality in the country.
Mr Bagbin said the Ministry had formulated ...
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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 ...
