Health

Hajia Fati Seidu Tambro, Executive Director of Sung Foundation, has urged government to scrap taxes on sanitary products to enhance menstrual health and hygiene among girls in schools.

Dr Atsu Saeke-Kwaku, Programme Manager, National Viral Hepatitis Programme, Ghana Health Service, has called for a scale-up of Hepatitis B and C testing as the disease prevalence keeps increasing in...

Moderate refined sugar intake, Dr. Zuleila Fuseini, Physician Specialist at International Maritime Hospital (IMaH) at Tema, has advised stressing that one should substitute refined sugar for natural sweeteners for a...

Mr. Joseph Akweteh Tettey, Member of Parliament for the Kpone-Katamanso Constituency, has given the Katamanso Community Health Provision Service (CHPs) two delivery beds, a diluent, and two laptop computers.

The Glimmer of Hope Foundation, a non-governmental organisation in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region, has educated about 550 adolescent girls on how to maintain good personal hygiene...

Madam Esinam Tekpor, the South Tongu District Girls Education Officer, has called on parents and guardians to normalise talks around menstrual health management to boost the adolescent girl’s confidence to...

Mr. Joseph Akweteh Tettey, Member of Parliament for the Kpone-Katamanso Constituency, has donated two delivery beds, a diluent, and two laptop computers to the Katamanso Community-Based Health Provision Service (CHPs).

Civil Society Organisations of Ghana (CSOs) have appealed to the government to make sanitary products affordable to boost self confidence of women and girls.

The Tema General Hospital has marked 2023 World Preeclampsia Day, which seeks to increase efforts to raise awareness about hypertensive disorder during pregnancy. 

Dr. Aba Folson, a Cardiologist at the International Maritime Hospital (IMaH), Tema, has revealed that pregnancy-induced hypertension, when not treated, affects the growth and survival of the unborn baby.