HEALTH

A project to remove homeless, mentally ill, or insane people from the streets of Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti region, has been started by the Willing Ways Foundation Ghana in collaboration with the Ashanti Regional Mental Health Authority under the supervision of the Regional Health directorate. This comes after …

Hon. Kingsley Nyarko, the representative for the residents of Kwadaso Constituency in the Ashanti Region, delivered a hematological analyzer machine and computers to Apatrapa Government Hospital today, Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Speaking to the media, Hon. Kingsley revealed that he spent Gh35,000 for the hematological analyzer machine in addition to …

A 45-bed maternity and children’s wing in the Bole District Hospital has been officially opened and presented to the Bole Community in the Savanna Region by former president John Mahama and his wife, Lordina. In a festive ceremony on Tuesday, the couple, who are commemorating their 30th wedding anniversary, built …

About 87 hospitals are being built as part of the government’s Agenda 111 project, according to Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. He claims that the majority of the sites have contractors working on around 87 of the anticipated 111, which are all in various levels of completion. He stated that “we …

According to the Ghana Health Service(GHS), mining pits may serve as bats’ primary breeding sites, which are known to carry the Marburg virus. Research has indicated that these trenches are home to bats, according to the GHS. Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the director general of the Ghana Health Service, stated: “We …

On Monday, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice President, officially unveiled the National Electronic Pharmacy Platform (NEPP) in Accra. The national ePharmacy, the first national-scale ePharmacy platform in Africa, is a digital convergence of authorized pharmacies throughout the nation. It will allow Ghanaians to have access to prescribed medications and buy …

The Health Sector Unions and Professional Association which comprises of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Health Services Workers’ Union (HSWU) has served notice to strike by 22 July 2022 if their demand for 20 per cent Cost of Living Allowance is not granted. …

Ahafo Regional Minister George Yaw Boakye on Wednesday cut the sod for the construction of Asunafo South District hospital, under the government’s flagship program dubbed ‘Agenda 111’ at Kukuom, in the Ahafo region. Four local contractors, Chrisotu Construction, Tripple Key Company limited, Huntspoint Properties, and Close Munbers Construction, received the 60-bed …

As Ghana seeks a bailout from the IMF, students in the country’s nursing and midwifery training colleges have warned the government that any move to revoke their allowances will be rejected. “The majority of us enrolled in nursing and midwifery training schools as a result of this government’s assurance that …

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 …