Friday, February 28, 2025

Health

Johnson and Johnson vaccine attracts high patronage in Accra

GNA - The administration of the Johnson and Johnson single shot COVID-19 vaccine has attracted high patronage in all the seven selected districts identified to be hotspots in the Greater Accra region. A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA)...

Ghana heightens border surveillance over Marburg and Ebola – GHS

GNA - The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has heightened border surveillance and health screening of entrants into Ghana, following confirmed cases of Marburg and Ebola diseases in neighbouring Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire respectively. The GHS said it can diagnose both...

Cote d’Ivoire confirms first case Ebola Virus Disease

GNA - Ghana's western neighbour Cote d’Ivoire has confirmed a first case of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) today August 15. This is the first Ebola outbreak declared by the country's Ministry of Health since 1994. The declaration was made after...

Kpone-Katamanso begins COVID-19 vaccination on Monday

GNA-The Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Directorate has fixed Monday, August 16 for the commencement of COVID-19 Johnson and Johnson vaccines in the municipality. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Kpone onsaturday, Dr. Esther Priscilla Biamah-Danquah, the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Director...

Ghanaians urged to be cautious of new Marburg virus

GNA - The Ghana Health Service (GHS), has cautioned Ghanaians against the new Marburg virus disease due to a confirmed case in Guinea. The rare but highly infectious Marburg virus disease was detected in a patient who died on August...

COVID-19 – Hassan Ayariga discharged, thanks God, doctors, nurses

GNA - Dr Hassan Ayariga, Founder and Leader of All People’s Congress (APC) has expressed graditude to God, and all health workers who took care of him when he got infected with COVID-19. A post on his Facebook wall showed...

COVID-19: Vaccination for public begins on Monday

GNA - The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will on Monday, August 16, begin COVID-19 vaccination for the public in eleven selected districts in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions. The vaccination exercise is for all persons 18 years and above...

Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye — and science

(CNN)If you were a kid raised anytime between the 1930s and the 1970s -- or raised by someone who was raised then -- chances are good that you grew up with the idea that spinach was a muscle builder...

37 Military Hospital halts 2021/2022 nursing and midwifery admissions

GNA - The Nursing and Midwifery Training College of the 37 Military Hospital Thursday announced that it would end the sale of online admission application vouchers for the 2021/2022 academic year next week. A statement issued in Accra on Thursday...

Sheikh Al Maktoum refunds Ghana’s balance for non-supplied Sputnik V vaccines

GNA - Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, the Dubai-based businessman, contracted by the Ministry of Health for the supply of 300,000 doses of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines, has refunded US$2,470,000 to Ghana. Ghana had already taken delivery of 20,000 doses...
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Suspect Arrested for Damaging Vehicles at Parliament, Identity Unknown.

An unidentified man has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing vehicles on the premises of Ghana’s Parliament today in Accra.  Reports...
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