Health

The Head of West Africa Center for Cell Biology and Infectious Pathogens, Professor Gordon Awandare has confirmed that the Indian variant of Coronavirus is in Ghana. The Indian strain also called 'Delta' according to the World Health Organization (WHO), is...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of St Andrews Senior High School (SHS), Dr. Richard Kofi Asiedu, has called on owners of businesses, particularly those in the education sector, not to become negligent regarding the COVID-19 safety protocols. He said the...

A Mental Health Practitioner and advocate Dr. Daniel Adjei has supported the call for immediate legislation in Ghana that decriminalizes suicide. Section 57 of the Criminal Offences Act – 1960, stipulates that, anybody who tries to take their life through...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Mrs. Delese Mimi Darko has assured the public of the quality, safety and efficacy of the Sputnik V, Covishield and the Johnson & Johnson vaccines. In a press statement...

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has justified the government’s procurement of Sputnik-V vaccines despite cost concerns. He also explained that there is nothing wrong with government dealing with middlemen during times of emergency. The government has come under condemnation for its...

Head of Tobacco and Substances of Abuse Department at the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Dr. Olivia Agyekumwaa Boateng, said the Authority is ready to support any amendment that will ensure a total ban on public smoking in the...

Parliament's Health Committee asserts that the government is not being duped in any arrangement to acquire Sputnik-V for COVID-19 immunization in the country. According to information from a Norwegian news source and subsequent communication from the Minority in Parliament, Health...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is demanding that law enforcement authorities investigate and prosecute the organizers of the funeral of former Forestry Commission chairman Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie popularly known as Sir John. Dr. Frank Ankobea, the Association's president, stated in a...

Occupy Ghana has expressed unhappiness with what it claims a flagrant disrespect for COVID-19 rules at the burial of Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, commonly known as Sir John, former CEO of the Forestry Commission and onetime General Secretary of the...

The Ministry of Health will begin a Nine (9) day exercise of recruiting Clinical Nurse Assistants and Preventive Nurse Assistants from June 9, 2021 to June 18, 2021. The exercise according to the Ministry commence each day between the hours...