HEALTH

Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah, the chief executive officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), expressed concern about the departure of more than 200 nurses and medical staff in 2023 from the hospital. According to Addai-Mensah, this is having an impact on the hospital’s operations. During a visit to the hospital …

The Brazilian construction company “Contracta,” which is in charge of building the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital 900 maternity block, has received 14 million euros from the government to get its workers back on the job site after the company had been away from it for more than a year. As …

Over 5909 units of blood have been collected by MTN Ghana for the 2024 Save-a-Life campaign. Thousands of people participated in the annual campaign, which was organized to supplement shortages at blood banks in Ghana, at specially designated bleeding centers spread across the 16 regions of the nation. In her …

Six people in the Bono Region lost their lives to rabies in 2023, according to Dr. Donald Joachim Darko, the Veterinary Services Department’s (VSD) Bono Regional Director. In contrast, he claimed that the deaths slightly decreased because the Department only reported eight deaths in 2022. Rabies is a fatal virus …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will launch a vaccination campaign by the end of the year that is aimed at pre-adolescents aged 9 to 14 in an attempt to lower the prevalence of the human papillomavirus among Ghanaian women. Given the concerning incidence of cervical cancer, the goal of this …

An angry youth from Gomoa Dominase attacked two police officers and several medical staff at the Gomoa Potsin Polyclinic after a patient who was receiving treatment there died. The deceased patient, identified only as Ato, 35, was taken to the Gomoa Potsin Polyclinic after he passed away in his home …

At the Damak-IDP Sanitation Health Watch Community Heroes Excellence Awards, which were held on Thursday, December 14, 2023, at the SSNIT Conference Hall in Adum-Kumasi, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Willingway Foundation-Ghana which is headed by Mrs. Lydia Abena Manu has won the title of best Mental Health Care and Rehabilitation …

Due to unpaid arrears, the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees Association (GNMTA) has threatened to stage a protest. The Association asserted that the government has not yet paid the allowance that its members are entitled to. The National President of the GNMTA, Adumbisa Pascal, and General Secretary, Blessing Ampofo, released a statement …

A significant number of the hospital projects included in Agenda 111 are scheduled to be inaugurated in 2024, the last year of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s term. In his speech at the inaugural Physicians and Surgeons Awards, he reaffirmed his goal of making Ghana, by 2030, the center of elite medical …

According to Simon Osei Mensah, the Regional Minister for Ashanti, the NPP government plans to inaugurate approximately 25 hospital projects in the region in 2024. The hospital projects, according to the Minister, demonstrated the government’s commitment to giving the local community access to high-quality, reasonably priced healthcare. He disclosed that …