HEALTH

In Ghana’s quest to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030, a two-day training workshop was organized for the Community Health Management Committee (CHMC) members to equip them with the Community Scorecard initiative in the Tain District of the Bono Region. Mr. George Asare Tabi, the Bono Regional health information officer …

Afrancho, Ashanti Region – PATH, in collaboration with partners like the Ghana National Olympic Committee, International Olympic Committee, Ghana Health Service, National Sports Authority, Ghana Education Service, and the Afigya Kwabre South District Assembly, joined Ghana’s National Fitness Day in Afrancho to encourage physical activity and healthy living. The event, …

In October 2024, MTN Ghana celebrated “Y’ello Goes Pink Day” for its employees as a sincere way to raise awareness of breast cancer. MTN House and its regional offices hosted the event, which was one of several events meant to increase public awareness of the illness. MTN’s Women in Technology …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has voiced serious concerns about situations of sexual misbehavior, drug abuse, and alcohol usage among certain medical practitioners, cautioning that these behaviors jeopardize patient care. At the GMA’s annual general meeting, Association President Dr. Frank Serebour stressed that physicians who are impacted by these problems …

As part of his campaign to support Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s presidential bid in the December 7 election, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Vice Presidential Candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), visited the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra Region on Thursday. As the NPP running mate engaged with …

If the long-standing concerns of its members are not resolved, the Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has threatened to go on strike nationwide in November. The organization, which speaks for mortuary employees nationwide, is demanding immediate changes to their working circumstances, such as increased pay, a safer workplace, and …

According to Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) vice presidential candidate, if Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is elected president of Ghana in 2025, nurses in the country would be permitted to import cars with engines less than 1.8 liters duty-free. On Wednesday, October 23, while speaking to students …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has praised the impact of current initiatives and praised his administration’s health sector accomplishments as exceptional. He reassured Ghanaians that the country’s healthcare system will be significantly improved with the conclusion of the Agenda 111 initiative, which intends to construct hospitals around the nation. The …

Dr Bertha Darteh a member of the Consulting team from TREND – ECOPSIS supporting the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources on the Environmental Sanitation Review 2010 has urged stakeholders in the Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Sector to contribute towards achieving the goals of Environmental Sanitation policy 2010 review. According …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has declared that, although supporting Organized Labour in its battle against galamsey, or illicit small-scale mining, it would not take part in the October 10 scheduled statewide strike. In a press release released on October 8, following an internal meeting, GMA stressed that it has …