HEALTH

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 …

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 …