Health
Bono Region records highest HIV prevalence rate in 2023 – GAC
The Bono Region recorded the highest HIV prevalence rate of 2.12 per cent in 2023, exceeding the national prevalence rate of 1.53 per cent, Mr Ahmed Ibrahim Bimbilla, the Bono,...
GNAT Cancer Foundation seeks support to sustain Cancer Fund
The Cancer Foundation of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has appealed to the media and corporate organisations to support its Cancer Fund, set up to fund cancer treatment...
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention takes off in Bolgatanga
The Bolgatanga Municipal Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region, has commenced first round of the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) therapy in the Municipality....
Our Nurses are being overworked – HoD
Dr Felix Nyande, the Head of Department for the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) School of Nursing and Midwifery has called to attention the growing burden on the...
Tamale Teaching Hospital embarks on medical outreach to Yendi
The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) has held free medical screening at the forecourt of the Gbewaa Palace at Yendi to offer accessible health care to residents. The exercise, which formed...
Stakeholders call for the inclusion of Neglected Tropical Diseases on NHIS, LEAP
Stakeholders at an advocacy meeting on persons living with neglected Tropical Diseases, (NTDs) have called on state actors to include them on special government programmes. They established that one...
Tamale Teaching Hospital’s oxygen plant shut down
The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) has announced a disruption of oxygen supply at the facility following an emergency shut down of its oxygen plant. A statement issued by the TTH...
VALD-Ghana launches three reports to support tobacco control in Ghana
The Vision for Alternative Development – Ghana (VALD-Ghana) has called on the Tobacco Control Inte-Agency Coordinating Committee to place a high priority on surveillance of tobacco industry operations to prevent...
NHIA pays GHS 587,236.00 to six hospitals under Free Dialysis Coverage programme
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) at the end of June paid GHS 587,236.00 to six hospitals providing care to vulnerable patients under its Free Dialysis Coverage programme. A press...
Effiduase Government Hospital benefits from Kokrokoo Charities Foundation incubator program
The Effiduase Government Hospital in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region, over the weekend, received its share of the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation incubator project. The project dubbed "The...
