Health

The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), has called for intensified efforts through stakeholder collaborations, to address issues around stigmatisation, non-adherence to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART), and Behaviour Change Communication, to curb new HIV infection rates and sustain treatment levels. Mr Kyeremeh Atuahene, the Acting Director-General of...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has given a July 31 deadline to embark on strike over stalled negotiations on conditions of service. The GMA is unhappy that since the expiration of the last service conditions in 2018, both the government acting through Labour, Finance...

The President of Breast Care International (BCI), Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has lamented that the poor roads networks to the rural communities in Ghana are seriously impeding against healthcare delivery. According to her, apart from the difficulty health personnel suffer...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has declared a public health emergency following the detection of the poliovirus type-2 in the Northern Region capital, Tamale. A public health emergency, according to the WHO, is "an occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition,...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has said that the government would do due diligence in the posting of nurses to work abroad if the agreement with partner countries is officially cemented. “We would ensure that only the best and most experienced of Ghanaian nurses...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to pay a working visit to the Nana Afia Serwaa Kobi Ampem II Nursing Training College, a private health institution in Kumasi, Ashanti region, to familiarize himself with the facilities of the school. Asantehene who did not...

The Medical superintendent of Steward Hospital, a private health center at Yakwei in the Asante Akim South district of the Ashanti Region, Dr. Paul Ntiamoah, has warned that licking of the female sexual reproductive organ has serious health implications on the human life and it must be...

Government will from Monday, July 1 begin recruitment of nurses who graduated from public and private health training institutions in the country between 2012 and 2016. Qualified trainees seeking employment are to apply online to select the preferred agency under the Ministry of Health...

The Asantehene, OtumfuoOsei Tutu II, has commendedSamuel Owusu King, the proprietor of Nana Afia Serwaa Kobi Ampen II Nursing Training, a private nursing training institution in Kumasi, for his frantic efforts in the developing of quality nurses for the healthcare delivery in the Ghana.

Komfo Anokye Teaching hospital (KATH) has inaugurated two newly installed ultramodern oxygen plant at the hospital, Tuesday. The project with a tremendous capacity to save lives of the citizens was champion and facilitated by the board and management of...