Health

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says the Ghana card will soon become the sole document for the provision of services under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) at credentialled facilities. Chief Executive of the Authority, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye brought this to the fore when he interacted with a …

  We are not posting senior high school graduates to serve as nurses or doctors. That is the response from Youth Employment Agency after it received backlash over its ongoing enrollment of senior high school graduates for deployment to rural health centres across the country. The job description of the …

In total, 23,495 people tested positive for HIV in the first half of this year (January to June), official figures have revealed. The figure is 2% of the 948,094 people who undertook HIV testing between January and June 2022. The bulk of those affected belong to varying demographic groups: men, …

The Member of Parliament of the Asene Manso Akroso Constituency, Hon. George Kwame Aboagye “Oluwa” has donated some health items to 8 health facilities in the Asene Manso Akroso District to mark his  birthday. Speaking at his birthday celebration event today 24th August which was held at his premises at …

Government has pledged to terminate the contract of contractors who delay the completion of the Agenda 111 projects.   Making this declaration, the Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, indicated that the government is committed to abiding by its timelines. “We will not shy away from cancelling or …

Ghana’s Childhood Cancer Ambassador, Breanna Fosua Addai, has died at age nine. She died at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on August 3, 2022 after complaining of severe bodily pains. Breanna Addai who was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) had to start another treatment again after she had an ALL- …

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association (GRNMA) has kicked against a decision by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to enrol Senior High School (SHS) graduates to assist Nurses at Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds. According to the association, despite the demanding work schedule of Nurses at CHPS …

Women have been advised to be cautious of the kind of food they consume at their fertile age and also must frequently attend hospital to prevent congenital abnormalities, ailments caused by problems during the fetus’s development before birth indicating that it is important for parents to be healthy and have …

A pregnant woman and her two children have been burnt to death after fire razed their home at Ohwim in Bantama constituency of the Ashanti Region. The inferno occurred on Monday, August 15, at about 11pm when the family was asleep in their room. The four including the baby in …

Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) is desperately approaching government to take advantage of the perceived controlled state of the Marburg virus disease to strategically improve the capacity of some COVID-19 testing laboratories across the various zones of the country. This, according to the association, will help to promptly …