HEALTH

The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has invited its Ashanti Regional Director for preliminary investigations. Alex Opoku-Mensah is said to have verbally abused a nurse at the Manhyia Hospital for the manner in which the healthcare provider spoke with his daughter. The nurse had called the house officer …

President Nana Akufo-Addo through the Ministry of Health has appointed Professor Otchere Addai Mensah, a Senior Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.   A formal letter from the ministry of …

A senior medical officer at the Manhyia government’s Hospital Mother and Baby Unit has urged parents to disregard wild beliefs that preterm birth is a spiritual condition and to insist on quality medical care for their babies. According to Dr. Yaa Dufie Amo-Mensah, many mothers are discouraged from seeking quality …

Some unemployed nurses across the country have hinted at plans to demonstrate over government’s delay in posting them to the various health facilities to commence work. The unemployed nurses comprising Nurse Assistant Clinicals (NAC) and Nurse Assistant Preventives (NAP) will demonstrate and picket the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry …

The Ghana Health Service(GHS), has withdrawn nurses from the CHPS compound in Asikesu a farming community in Upper West Akyem Municipality due to perilous condition of the facility. The old post office building converted to CHPs compound continues to deteriorate. A portion of the building collapsed few weeks ago forcing …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has served notice to the government that in future negotiations, they will advocate for doctors and other health professionals’ salaries to be pegged to the US dollar. Speaking at the 64th Annual General Conference of the Association at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region, the …

The Ghana Medical Association is threatening to declare a nationwide strike if the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) does not rescind its decision to surcharge them as part of a new tax system being introduced. The Association said the GRA made its intent known in a letter it is yet to …

A member of the Health Promotion team of Prestea Health Directorate taking the participants through how they can check for the disease Available statistics indicate that about 16,000 new breast cancer cases are reported annually in Ghana. Prestea Huni Valley Municipal Health Director, Dr. Joseph Kwame Sampson, who revealed this …

Developing Women for Skills and Opportunities Initiative (DWoSO), a non-governmental organization with the vision of ensuring a just world for women and girls has called on the government to expedite the removal of the 20% tax on menstrual products. The call was made this day, 11 October 2022, in commemoration …

The HIV population among children aged one to four years was 7,699 in 2020, while new infections in children of the same age group in 2021 were 443. “This is not good because most of these children got it from their mothers. They were mainly mother-to-child transmissions and that is …