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The Ministry of Health (MoH) in partnership with Starkey Hearing Foundation has inaugurated the technical working group for the development of a National Strategic Plan on ear and hearing health. The working group chaired by Nana Kwabena Adjei-Mensah, MOH Acting Chief Director, had Professor Emmanuel Kitcher, Co-Chair Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Consultant, University of […]
The Stroke Association Support Network of Ghana is calling on government to enroll all stroke survivors onto the Livelihood Empowerment Assisted Program (LEAP) which is being enjoyed by persons living with disabilities (PLWD). According to the association, the absence of adequate rehabilitation services and centers in the country and the high cost of medicines for […]
Physician Assistants in government health facilities have served notice that they will from Monday, September 10 withdraw Out Patient Department (OPD) services across hospitals in Ghana The move, they said in a communique, was necessitated because government through the Health Ministry and its implementing agencies such as the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and National Health […]
Mr Reynolds O. Tenkorang, the General Secretary of the Health Workers Union (HSWU), says for Ghana to achieve SDGs target 3(8) for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there must be equipment and well-trained human resource for better service delivery. He said the authorities must put in measures to improve access to quality essential health-care services, quality […]
“For me, it was peace of mind. I knew that I could sleep and feel confident my baby was being well taken care of. I was so paranoid with the first baby I would listen to him breathe all night so even when he was sleeping, I wasn’t,” says Godfrey, who hired her nanny three […]
A research conducted by a group of researchers at the West Africa Centre of Cell Biology and Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) at Legon and Nougochi Medical Institute, found two children in Accra reporting to the LEKMA Hospital in Teshie Ledzokuku Krowor Municipal Assembly, to have dengue fever virus serotype 2, which was reported in a 2016 […]
Second functional CHPS facility in Sekyere East district Inaugurated: Madam Mary Boatemaa Marfo, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Sekyere East, has called for effective stakeholder collaboration to improve health care delivery in rural communities.S Shesaid quality health care delivery was a collective responsibility of all to ensure that the public, especially women and children in […]
Govt Hospitals Granted Power To Do Individual Recruitment: The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Dr Nsiah Asare has stated that government has agreed not to directly post health workers to health facilities in the country. According to him, the various regional and district hospitals, based on GHS’ staffing norms, will be given […]
We have degree nurses; their employment is their own headache just like any other university student. The ones that were given assurance of employment, even before they entered their various institutions of learning, are the ones giving the tune for my fingers to be dancing gracefully on the keyboard today. They prefer to call themselves […]
“Yes I have died twice for several minutes. Both were from suicide attempts and the two experience s were very different. The first time I had overdosed, lost consciousness, stopped breathing and had no pulse. At first everything was just dark nothingness and then I became conscious and aware in my mind, while still being […]