Sowah WarlkF A 60-year-old casual worker at the Akuse Government Hospital in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region is currently in the grip of the Akuse Police
Maternal Mortality High In Tuluwe
The Tuluwe-Wura , Rashid Bunyamso , chief of Tuluwe in the Savannah Region has lamented the high rate at which pregnant women die in the community due to the lack
‘Stop Stigmatising Sickle Cell Patients’
THE GHANA Institute of Clinical Genetics (Sickle Cell Clinic) has called for an end to what it termed the stigmatisation of persons living with sickle cell. The Institute made the
Gov’t Commissions 3 New Polyclinics
Government has commissioned three new ultra-modern polyclinics in the Greater Accra Region. The 30-bed capacity facilities at Sege, Ashaiman and Ogbojo, each comes with an operating theatre, laboratory, maternity ward,
Council Suspends Midwife, Nurse For Misconduct
Felix Nyante Registrar, N & MC The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana has suspended an enrolled nurse and a midwife for three years on separate counts of unprofessional conducts
Zipline Drone Makes Historic Delivery Of Sickle Cell Medication
GHANA HAS recorded a historic delivery of a sickle cell medication by drone technology. A Zipline Medical Drone on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, as Ghana and the rest of the
NBS Implements New Blood Supply Programme
The Award winners with the dignitaries in a group photo. In its quest to reduce the over reliance on family replacement blood donations, the National Blood Service (NBS) has begun
Relief For Health Institutions
First Lady Rebecca Akofo-Addo in a symbolic hand over of hospital equipment to MP for Fanteakwa South, Kofi Okyere-Agyekum. The Rebecca Foundation has presented assorted hospital equipment to some institutions,
GE Dialogue On UHC Underway
Third from left: Alexander Abban, Farid Fezoua and Sulemana Abubakar at the exhibition centre after the opening General Electric (GE) Healthcare has begun discussions with stakeholders in the health sector
Allied Health Council Gets Board
The board members taking their oath of officeD The board responsible for determining the scope of practice for allied health profession in the country has been inaugurated after months of
Ghana’s Nurse Patient Ratio Improves
The Health Minister, Kweku Agyemang-Manu has suggested that Ghana appeared to be overproducing nurses. According to him, “from the look of things, the country is reaching a point where it
‘Include Blood Processing Fee on NHIS’
A voluntary blood donor going through the process to make her donation. A clarion call has been made for the fee charged for processing blood to be covered by the
Free SHS Boosts Voluntary Blood Donation
Kwame Assenso Mensah THE number of voluntary blood donation has increased since the introduction of Free Senior High School (SHS) programme. Head of Blood Recruitment Unit of Komfo Anokye Teaching