Health

The organizer of the annual ‘Chale Wote’ Street Arts Festival Nii Ayertey Aryeh has expressed worry over hazardous conditions of the Greater Accra Regional Police Cells describing it as a COVID-19 time-bomb that is awaiting explosion. Nii Ayertey Aryeh, popularly...

The School of Public Health of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in collaboration with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), has manufactured typhoid vaccines to combat typhoid disease in the country. The university has since commenced the...

Former President and 2020 Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has asked President Nana Akufo-Addo to ensure the full operationalisation of the Upper West Regional hospital in Wa. This, he said will ensure that as...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is to hold discussions with global vaccine manufacturer Pfizer-BioNTech for the establishment of a Vaccine Institute in Ghana. The meeting, to be held in Germany, on the sidelines of the President's official working visit to...

The acting Upper East Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Kasimu Abudulai, has condemned the illegal fees charged by some service providers for services rendered to holders of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card in...

The Ghana National Chamber of Pharmacy (GNCoP) has called on government to focus on creating speedy access to certified COVID-19 vaccines to ensure that the country reach the 20 million vaccination target by end of 2021. The Chamber of Pharmacy...

The President Nana Akufo-Addo said the Agenda 111 hospital project when completed, will offer employment to some 20,000 health professionals across the country. The President disclosed this at the sod cutting ceremony of the project at Trede in the Atwima...

The Environmental Health Officers Alliance Ghana (EHOA-GH) has threatened to suspend burying of all covid-19 victim dead bodies in the country if government continue refusing to provide their members in various assemblies with the necessary logistics to carry on...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has revealed that the President Nana Addo on Tuesday August 17, 2021, will cut sods for the commencement of 111 hospitals promised by government. According to him, though challenges may arise, the government is determined...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) said it has heightened border surveillance and health screening of entrants into Ghana, following confirmed cases of Marburg and Ebola diseases in neighbouring Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire respectively. The Director-General of GHS Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye,...