Health
HFFG calls for community empowerment initiatives to eliminate NTDs in Ghana
Hope For Future Generations, a non governmental organisation, with focus on health, has called on the Government to spearhead community empowerment initiatives to bring positive change towards eliminating Neglected Tropical...
Ghana eliminates Human African Trypanosomiasis(sleeping sickness)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially handed over notification certificate to Ghana for eliminating Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) as a public health problem. Human African trypanosomiasis, also known as...
Ghana losing too many young women to cervical cancer
Dr Promise Sefogah, General Secretary, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Ghana, has expressed worry about how the country is increasingly losing many young women to cervical cancer. Dr Sefogah...
Majority Leader congratulates winners in NPP Parliamentary Primaries
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business in Parliament, has congratulated all elected parliamentary candidates in the Saturday, January 27, parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic...
Mass Drug Administration for onchocerciasis takes off on Monday
The Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal Health Directorate in the Western Region will from Monday January 29 to February 12, 2024, begin Mass Drug Administration (MDA) for onchocerciasis (river blindness). The twelve-day...
Eastern Region records reduction in maternal death
Ms Ellen Darkoa Asare, Deputy Director of Public Health Nurse of the Ghana Health Service has said the Eastern region recorded 17 per 100,000 live birth reduction in maternal death...
Early breastfeeding initiation for Tema babies increased in 2023 – Nutritionist
- Mr. Samuel Atuahene Antwi, the nutritionist for the Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate, has disclosed that the early initiation of breastfeeding for babies born in Tema increased to 77.7 percent...
COVID-19 cases drop substantially in Eastern Region
Dr John E. Otoo, the Eastern Regional Deputy Director of Public Health of the Ghana Health Service, says the region recorded lower COVID-19 cases last year than in 2022. He...
Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital gets boost from Blessed Home Ghana-Holland
Dr George Kwame Prah, Director of Trauma and Specialist Hospital, Winneba, has expressed appreciation to Blessed Home Ghana-Holland, for supporting the Hospital with some medical supplies and equipment. The Blessed...
Use COVID-19 fund to strengthen health care, immunization financing-HFFG
The Executive Director of Hope For Future Generation (HFFG), Mrs Cecilia Senoo, has asked the government to use the COVID-19 fund to strengthen healthcare delivery, particularly the financing of immunization...
