To ensure that every child with cleft lip or palate has access to surgical care, the Renowned Adventurers and Cipla Foundation members have begun running the coastline of Ghana to raise awareness and funds for the corrective surgeries.
It is anticipa…
Dr Julius Abuku, the Medical Superintendent of the Agona Swedru Municipal Government Hospital, has denied knowledge of allegations by some people that the hospital caused the death of a 54-year-old woman.
Dr Abuku said the hospital did no wrong to di…
The National Health Insurance Authority has organised a three-day hands-on event for a specialist group of clinical experts for a comprehensive review of the Ghana Diagnostic Related Groupings (G-DRG) payment method of the National Health Insurance Sc…
Some women at Zinye, a predominantly farming community in the Wa East District, have decried the difficulties they go through to access Antenatal Care (ANC) and skilled delivery services at health facilities situated in other communities.
They said a…
Pregnant women using the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to access antenatal services at healthcare facilities in the Talensi and Nabdam districts of the Upper East Region hardly get the required medicines, research has revealed.
The study, c…
The Cassona Global Imaging, and Mindray, manufacturer, and supplier of medical devices, have trained students of Klintaps College of Health and Allied Sciences in Accra on modern ultrasound machines.
A team of clinical scientists trained the medical …
About 53 per cent of reports on stigmatisation against tuberculosis (TB) patients were recorded between March 2022 to March 2024, a report by Hope For Future Generation (HFFG) has said.
This was made known at a stakeholder engagement in Accra by HFFG…
Madam Mercy Borkaifio Bortey, a 71-year-old Principal Midwifery Officer at the Bengali Hospital in Tema, has advised midwives to see the profession as a calling and be dedicated to helping pregnant women to deliver safely.
Madam Bortey, also a scrub …
Trends of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Accra is fast increasing with cardiovascular diseases being the leading cause of death among the middle aged in the City.
Dr Abena Okoh, Metropolitan Director of Health Service, said the high numbers of N…
Dr Benjamin Kofi Angenu, Medical Director of the Forever Champion Health Centre, has called on the public to refrain from self-medication and seek proper medical care at health facilities.
He noted that the situation where some people, due to poverty…