Health

Reconstruction of the La General Hospital project has stalled due to issues of insurance cover for the financial arrangements, Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu told Parliament. As part of his brief to the house, the Health Minister said, Sinosure, the...

The Ghana Ambulance Service has refuted claims that one of its employee drivers was the man seen in a viral video carting cement bags to a construction site. The video which since went viral, has attracted condemnations from the general...

A weeks after the Medical Laboratory Scientists at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) declared strike over transfer of two medical officers to the hospital's Laboratory Services Directorate, they have been asked to resume work as the national leadership...

Contrarily to the widely held perception that smoking of water-pipe tobacco, commonly called shisha and electronic cigarettes are safer as compared to regular cigarret, the Chief Executive Officer of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Mrs Delese Mimi Darko,...

Three health groups, Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists, Ghana Medical Association, and Council of Presidents of the Ghana Federation of Allied Health Professions will meet with members of the Parliamentary Committee on Health to discuss the ongoing strike...

The Chief Commissioner for Ghana Girl Guide Association (GGGA) Zakiya Abdul Wahab has called on the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to make amend of his promise of scrapping import duties on sanitary pads. In an interview with Noel Nutsugah...

Ghana, has been acknowledged by the World Health Organisaition (WHO), for achieving Maturity Level 3 of the Organisation’s global benchmarking tool for measuring the performances of regulatory systems. Director-General of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who made the acknowledgement,...

The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) have threatened to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike. The threat according to the association, will be in support of their colleagues at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), if their...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is set to introduce new approach to post-market surveillance which will be deployed across the country. The program which is code named ‘Promoting the Quality of Medicines’ (PQM+), aims at strengthening quality of...

National Security has arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in the stealing and sale of COVISHIELD vaccines belonging to the Government of Ghana. A 37-year-old Disease Control Officer of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Stephen Dzisenu, is said to...