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Health

High cost of dialysis treatment killing many kidney patients – KATH Nephrologist.

High cost of dialysis treatment has been blamed for the high rate of deaths among kidney patients at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.       One out of three patients who seek medical attention associated with kidney die...

Malaria Elimination Programme advised to translate video on malaria into local languages.

Mr. Samuel Yao Atidzah, Executive Director of GOSANET Foundation, has appealed to the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) to translate its video on malaria into the local languages to bridge the language barrier.  He also called on the Programme to...

Economy will rebound with post-COVID-19 recovery programme – Ministry of Finance assures

The Ministry of Finance is optimistic of a rebound in the economy through the Post-COVID-19 Programme for Economic Growth (PC-PEG). The programme is a blueprint prepared to restore macroeconomic stability, promote debt sustainability, and sustained economic recovery anchored on structural...

WHO assures of distribution of health infrastructure in Oti Region

Professor Francis Kasolo, World Health Organization (WHO) Country Representative to Ghana, has reiterated his commitment to ensuring that infrastructural projects and working tools in healthcare delivery are distributed across the Oti Region. He gave the assurance in his address at...

World Vision Ghana constructs CHPS compound for Tarikpaa Community 

World Vision Ghana, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), has constructed a Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound for residents of Tarikpaa in the Savelugu Municipality of the Northern Region to ensure improved access to health care.   The facility, started...

Central Region targets 92,500 in Covid-19 vaccination campaign

The seventh round of the National Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign has commenced in earnest in the Central Region, targeting 92,500 people who are 18 years and above. The Central Regional Directorate of Health has thus deployed 400 teams across all districts...

Stay and serve the motherland – Aflao Customs to nurses

Assistant Commissioner Joseph Allan, Aflao Sector Commander, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has appealed to nurses and midwives to stay and offer their services to the citizenry. He said nurses and midwives played an integral role in the...

Phase II KOICA CHPS+ project launched in North East Region

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has launched the second phase of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Community-based Health Planning and Services + (CHPS+) project in Nalerigu, capital of the North East Region. The national launch follows a successful five-year...

More than 20 million children miss vaccines – UN report

More than 20 million children missed out on one or more routine childhood vaccinations last year according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s agency (Unicef). Although numbers have decreased since the peak of the pandemic, when...

GHS embarks on seventh COVID-19 vaccination campaign 

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday launched a five-day vaccination campaign to intensify the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines across the country. The campaign, which runs from Wednesday, July 19 to Sunday, July 23, 2023, is to ensure that Ghana...
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‘I thought I’d die after injecting black market anti-obesity drug’.

Black market weight-loss drugs left a woman thinking she was going to die after do-it-yourself injections put her in...
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