Health

A three-week lockdown has been declared in two districts of Uganda as the country battles an Ebola outbreak. Bars, nightclubs, places of worship and entertainment venues will be closed in Mubende and neighbouring Kassanda, and a curfew will come into force. The move is a U-turn for Uganda’s President Yoweri …

Orbis International Ghana with the help from Ghana Health Service  (GHS ) has marked the 2022 International World Sight Day with a blindness simulation and eye screening exercise to help demystify blindness and draw attention to the global issue of eye health and vision impairment as in line with this …

IT IS trite knowledge that diseases and sicknesses are consequentially an integral part of our daily lives. No matter how well we take good care of ourselves, we can never escape the scathing sword of sicknesses and diseases. Indeed, diseases and sicknesses are no respecter of persons. Diseases have no …

The second round of the polio vaccination has begins today, October 6, and will ends Sunday, October 9, 2022, across the Region. This round is targeted about 1,209,861 children under the age of five. The Ashanti Regional Health Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang in an …

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified four substandard medicinal products in The Gambia. The four products are; Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup. According to a statement from the FDA, …

Allowing a man to suck your breasts is a golden opportunity for a lady, there are numerous advantages of encouraging a man to suck your breasts. Every time you’re in a private room and ready to have pleasure, ensure your man sucks your breast for at least 5 minutes. For …

The Paramount Chief of Tepa in the Ashanti Region has urged women to allow their partners to fondle and suck their breasts in order to aid in the early detection and treatment of breast cancer. Nana Adusei Atwenewaa Ampem I, said, men have a critical role to play in preventing …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the most common cause of death globally. An estimated 18.5 million people die from CVD every year according to World Health Organization (WHO). Coronary heart disease or strokes were the major causes of these deaths. World Heart Day is observed and celebrated annually on September 29, …

The Medical and Dental Council of Ghana believes criticisms of its decision not to recognize degree certificates issued by Medical and Dental Schools in Ukraine are unjustified. Speaking on Eyewitness News, the council’s Registrar, Dr. Divine Ndonbi Banyubala, suggested that his outfit was deserving of praise for being proactive and …

The Administrator of Nyaniba Health College, Nii Saul Mettle has stated that the rate at which nurses migrate from Ghana to foreign countries for greener pastures due to the inability of government to employ them as well as poor conditions of service is disturbing.   Speaking in to Obaatanpa News …