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Health

Pay attention to issues affecting children with cerebral palsy – Otiko Djaba

GNA - Madam Otiko Afisah Djaba, a disability advocate, has called on the Government to pay attention to challenges faced by mothers of children with cerebral palsy (CP). “These mothers go through a lot of stress and frustrations and I...

Injectable glutathione is unsafe – FDA

GNA - The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned the public on the unsafe use of injectable glutathione, which affects the production of the pigment that gives the human skin its colour (melanin). The Authority said no injectable glutathione...

Ghana to get new COVAX consignment tomorrow

GNA - A consignment of 530,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine from the governments of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Germany will arrive in Ghana via the COVAX facility tomorrow, Wednesday, October 6. The donation is towards Ghana’s agenda of vaccinating...

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,...
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