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Media must stop describing persons living with mental illnesses with offensive words – Psychiatrists

GNA - Professor Angela Ofori Atta, the Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Korle-bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), has advised journalists to stop using offensive words to describe persons living with mental health illnesses. She said the use of derogatory words...

Kpone records 135 dog bites from January to August

GNA - Dr Esther Priscilla Biamah-Danquah, Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Director has stated that Kpone recorded 135 dog bites from January to August this year, stressing that the Municipality since 2016 continuous to record increasing cases of dog bites. The statistics...

Young people are more being affected with heart diseases – Dr Ballal

GNA - Dr Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman, Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt Ltd, says heart diseases are becoming common across all age groups with the most being in their 30s or 40s. He attributed the primary reasons to stress, lack of exercise,...

Health Stakeholders call on government to resource FDA

GNA - Stakeholders in health have called on Government to resource the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to establish a laboratory to test industrially-produced Trans-Fatty Acids (TFAs) in Ghana’s food supply system. They said this would enable the Authority to...

Ghana may soon have surplus midwives – study reveals

GNA - Ghana’s health workforce meets only 67 per cent of the number needed for primary health care. The country has however achieved 91. Kumasi, Oct. 01, GNA - Ghana’s health workforce meets only 67 per cent of the number...

Let’s develop pandemic preparedness strategy to combat future pandemics- Epidemiologist

GNA - Professor Ernest Kenu, an Associate Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Health, University of Ghana, has advised Government to develop a pandemic preparedness and response strategy for the future. He also asked it...

KNUST scientists lead clinical trial of ‘Nibima’ for COVID-19 treatment

GNA - Scientists (investigators) at the Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), are leading the clinical trial of “Nibima”, a local herbal preparation intended for use in the treatment of COVID-19. Professor Christian Agyare,...

Adherence to safety protocols on vacay amidst rising COVID-19 deaths

GNA - The adherence to the COVID-19 safety protocols among the public has dropped significantly even though Ghana is experiencing a third wave of the Pandemic checks by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) has revealed. By Linda Naa Deide Aryeetey Accra,...

COVID-19 delays ECOWAS Regional Electricity Market Phase II implementation – ERERA

GNA - The COVID-19 Pandemic has delayed the implementation of Phase II of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Market by two years, Professor Honoré Bogler, Chairman, ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA), has said. He said as a result, the Authority...

White House: 400,000+ Americans have received Covid-19 booster shots

 (tca/dpa/GNA) — At least 400,000 people in the United States have received COVID-19 booster shots since the extra injections were authorized last week, the Biden administration said Tuesday. “Our planning and preparation on boosters have propelled a strong start,” said...
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