Health

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated that beginning year 2022, every new born child delivered in Ghana, within a few months, will get a Ghanacard number. According to Dr. Bawumia, barring any unforeseen circumstances the actual card will be...

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...

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...

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,...