Saturday, November 23, 2024

Health

Lands Commission screens staff for breast cancer

GNA - The Lands Commission in collaboration with its Gender Unit, has organised a breast cancer screening exercise for its staff. The screening was part of activities to mark this year's Breast Cancer Month.A team of medical doctors from Heath...

Breast milk is not meant for the eye – Ophthalmic Nurse advises

GNA - Mrs Ama Henrietta Serchie, an Ophthalmic Nurse at the Hohoe Municipal Hospital, has called on the public to desist from putting drops of breast milk on their eyes as a treatment when they have eye conditions. “Breast milk...

Suspected Yellow Fever Outbreak: Eight persons die in Savannah Region – GHS

,GNA - Eight persons have died from suspected Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak in the Savannah Region, the Ghana Health Service(GHS) has said. This follows an interim laboratory results of an unusual disease from the region, a press release from the...

Informal patient, out-of-pocket payments exist in health care system – UHAS Research

GNA - Research by a nine-member team of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has revealed that informal and out-of-pocket patient payments existed within the formal health care system. The...

Global Fund contributes US$1.2 billion to healthcare delivery in Ghana

GNA - Nii Nortery Hanson Nortey, Vice Chairman of the Country Coordinating Mechanism of Global Fund, Ghana, says the Fund has contributed US$1. 2 billion to improve health systems in Ghana in the last 20 years.He said the Global Fund...

Bird Flu: H5 subtype confirmed in Kpone-Katamanso

GNA - The Avian influenza H5 subtype has been confirmed in ETY farms in Saki, a community in the Kpone Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. Confirming the case to the Ghana News Agency in Tema; Dr Emmanuel Kwao...

Ethiopia MOH under studies N&MC in its online licensing examination procedure

GNA - An eight-member delegation from the Health Professionals Competency Assessment & Licensure Directorate of the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia is in the country to understudy how the Nursing and Midwifery Council (N&MC) of Ghana conducts its online...

Pharmacist expresses concern over HIV figures in Ellembelle

GNA - A Pharmacist at Anglogold Ashanti, Mr Clement Clinton Blay says statistics available at the Ghana AIDS Commission paint an alarming picture of HIV infections in the Ellembelle District. According to him, analysis by the GAC identified the Ellembelle...

NHIS promoting good health, reducing poverty – Report

GNA - The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is improving health financing and good health among Ghanaians, findings of a research titled, “Making the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) work for the people” has revealed. It also showed that NHIS...

COVID-19: Centre for Plant Medicine Research develops herbal medicines for treatment

GNA – Dr Kofi Bobi Barimah, Executive Director, Centre for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR), has hinted that they would soon outdoor two herbal medicines developed to treat COVID-19. Dr Barimah said the two herbal products had been sent to the...
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Next NPP gov’t to establish Hall of Fame in all regions, Tourism Minister reveals.

If given another mandate at this year’s general election, the next New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will establish Creative...
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