HEALTH

Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the majority leader and minister of parliamentary affairs, has criticized those who oppose the government’s agenda to build 111 hospitals across the nation. Last Tuesday, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu gave persuasive arguments for why the government’s decision to carry out such capital-intensive projects, even during this period, should be …

The progress of the current work on the reconstruction and modernization of the Maternity and Children’s block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi has been praised by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. As part of his four-day working visit to the Ashanti region, the …

According to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic, since 2017, his administration has started and finished 32 hospital construction projects in the Ashanti Region. As part of his four-day working visit to the Ashanti Region, President Akufo-Addo stressed that “I am not referring to CHPS compounds and health …

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia noted that the government’s desire to address the glaring lack of access to healthcare facilities, particularly in remote areas of the country, led to the decision to launch Agenda 111, possibly the largest investment in the nation’s health care system. Dr. Bawumia noted that this was …

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president, expressed his delight with the advancement of the Agenda 111 Hospital projects in the Northern Region. However, he has imposed a fee on the project’s contractors to expedite construction in order to guarantee their timely completion. By December 2023, all eight of the district hospitals …

According to the World Bank, Ghana’s government is free to use the $430 million that the Bretton Woods organization provided to the West African nation to battle the COVID-19 outbreak. In an interview with Accra-based TV3, the Bank’s Country Director for Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, Mr. Pierre Frank Laporte, …

The Ashanti Region is seeing a growing rabies outbreak, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). By health facilities in the Region, four of these instances and one probable case have been confirmed thus far, with a case fatality rate of 100 percent as of Monday, September 12, 2022. Asante …

Eyram King Dotse, a certified licensed dietician at the Accra Regional Hospital, has said that certain vendors of fruits inject them with formalin to keep them fresh for a longer period of time. Earlier, during the health check section of GTV’s Breakfast Show, which Ghanatodayonline.com was watching, he made this …

According to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), the Ghana card will soon replace all other forms of identification when receiving treatments through the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in facilities with credentials. When interacting with a variety of media in his office, Authority Chief Executive Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye …

According to regional minister for the Ashanti region Simon Osei Mensah, as part of the present administration’s development agenda, the number of doctors has increased by 93%. The Minister revealed that there were 103 physicians in the area in 2016. But the number has gone from 103 to 218 doctors, …