Dr Freda Prempeh, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, has urged district assemblies to prosecute residents who flout the environmental sanitation byelaws to serve as a deterrent to others.“Until some drastic actions are taken by the assemblies against...
Be cautious about the origin of the food you and your family consume as it may be toxic to everyone who eats it, Mr. Samuel Atuahene Antwi, a nutritionist at the Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate has warned.
"Food shouldn't merely...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Vendors of local aphrodisiac in Accra and Tema say there is a rise in the demand for female sexual enhancement products.
According to the vendors, women who patronise those products list issues including vaginal laxity, a general lack of interest...