HEALTH

According to the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, since the MTN Ghana Foundation donated a blood bank to the hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Unit in 2021, there has been a decrease in the number of cases of maternal and newborn death. Acting Cape Coast Teaching Hospital CEO Dr. Stephen Laryeh told …

The leadership of the Union of Professional Nurses and Midwives, Ghana (UPNMG) have stated they also deserve 20% Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) withinside the wake of the tough monetary conditions simply as teacher unions are demanding. The teacher unions have launched into strike movement following authorities’s failure to pay …

The Canadian Government has supported the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate with $10 Million economic package to assist lifesaving offerings for the human beings in Ghana particularly the ones withinside the Ashanti Region following the COVID-19 pandemic. The assist is to enhance first-class fitness care, maternal fitness, training, sanitation and hygiene …

The Ashanti Regional Director of Ghana Health Service Dr Emmanuel Tenkorang is urging Ghana Education Service to allow them get all the students for the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr Emmanuel Tenkorang said, as part of measures to ensure that, the Region get the 70 percent health immunity target, his outfit has …

The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban S.K Bagbin has ordered the committees of Finance and Health to very well probe the Covid-19 expenditures by the government. Speaker stated this has end up vital to clean all “lingering doubts” at the matter. According to him, some agencies which include …

The Ghana’s present active COVID-19 cases have increased to 1,064 with no deaths recorded. There has been a surge in Covid-19 instances in Ghana this month, setting the country at the route to its 5th wave ever since the outbreak started in March 2020. The Greater Accra Region is topping …

MTN Ghana Foundation congratulates voluntary blood donors as they join the global commemoration of World Blood Donor Day. To draw interest to the position that voluntary blood donations play in saving lives and improving cohesion inside communities, this year’s World Blood Donor Day is being honored with the theme “Donating …

Two army officials from the 155 Armored Regiment primarily based totally in Damongo are presently in police custody for allegedly raping an old student of the Damongo Nursing and Midwifery College. The student is stated to have come to the college for a few documents. The incident passed off round …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) through the expanded program on the immunization has collaborated with the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) held a stakeholders meeting to plan about how to fight and response to a vaccine related issue in the Ashanti Region. This Vaccine Related Events (VRE) which are connected …

Ghanaians have been entreated to keep their environments as well as the entire country clean with a name for the stern enforcement of sanitation bye-legal guidelines and the naming and shaming of individuals who flout the legal guidelines. The Environmental Health Officer of the Bekwai Municipality Mr. Eric Cudjoe in an …