Tag Archives: Ashanti Regional Health Directorate

On every 30th January, the World celebrates Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (NTDs). NTDs affects over a billion people around the world, and are caused by a variety of viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, and other toxins. NTDs are most prevalent in the poorest regions and in addition to inclement weather, poor …

Ghana Health Services (GHS) have declared 20th to 24th January, 2023, a Nationwide Immunization Days Campaign to reveal efforts that the nation are ready to combat the pandemic with the availability of the vaccines and also involve the populates in the exercise in the new year. Social groups like, Keep-fit …

The Covid-19 has placed a heavy toll on human and economic development in Ghana and the Ashanti Region has been one of the regions being affected by this pandemic. The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate is therefore about to embark on a National Immunization Days Campaign which is schedule to start …

The Ashanti Regional Health Director, Dr Emmanuel Tenkorang has said with optimism that covid-19 may possibly end at the concluding part of 2023 following efforts by the Health Directorate towards the pandemic. He informed that surveillance has been strengthened, and the support of the media has been immense in creating …

The governing council of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has organized a three days workshop of the newly appointed medical superintendent in kumasi to ensure quality care and safety of every patients in health facilities. The orientation also aimed to established a clinical governing committee as part of measures to …

In the era of poor access to health and maternal care, some Assembly Members has introduced measures in their electoral areas to stem the tide. Such is the story of Hon. Ofori Farrid, Assembly Member for Oyoko who double as a presiding member for Sekyere Kumawu District of the  Ashanti …

The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate with the help from JHPIEGO-USAID RISE has begun another round of COVID -19 vaccination exercise in all the Districts and Municipalities in the region. The five-days exercise which is starting on the  9th to 13th November 2022, would seek to vaccinate  203,480 people who have …

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 …