HEALTH

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, yesterday told an Accra High Court that former Deputy Minister of Finance under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration, Dr. Casiel Ato Forson, instructed the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to establish letters of credit in favour of the company that supplied defective ambulances to …

A registered nurse assistant is crying for help after staying home three years without a job. Ms. Rose Adu Gyamfi said she has been jobless since graduating from nursing training school in 2019. Mr. Gyamfi, who spoke to JoyNews said life has been unbearable without a job. “I have completed …

The quality of healthcare delivery in Ghana is often called into question when compared to other parts of the world. Citizens who can afford the services of hospitals abroad continue to patronize those facilities due to lack of trust in the country’s healthcare system.   Co-founder of Banahene Specialist Hospital, …

Marburg virus is the causative agent of Marburg virus disease (MVD), a disease with a case fatality ratio of up to 88%, but can be much lower with good patient care. Marburg virus disease was initially detected in 1967 after simultaneous outbreaks in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany; and in Belgrade, …

Due to financial difficulties, several nursing trainees continue to forego their clinical practice at hospitals, which hinders the effective training of nurses and midwives. For eleven months, the government has defaulted on the payment of allowances to continuing students. According to the Ghana Nursing and Midwives Trainees Association, over a …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced the confirmation of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in some parts of the country. The confirmation follows further testing at the Institute Pasteur in Dakar (IP), Senegal, which corroborated the results from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana. On July 7, …

General Secretary of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwifery Association, David Tenkorang-Twum, has disclosed that remuneration due workers who contributed immensely to the fight against Covid-19 were not paid. According to him, the additional 50% allowances on their basic salaries (per month for a four-month period starting from March 2020) …

The National Association of Registered Midwives, Ghana (NARM-GH) has joined calls by other public sector workers for a cost of living allowance.   In a press release dated July 10, the leadership of the association noted that like other republic sector workers, the current economic crisis is having some adverse …

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has cautioned against increasing figures of the nurse to patients ratio if government doesn’t revise service conditions of its members.   Although Ghana’s nurse to patient ratio stands at 1 nurse to 839 patients, exceeding the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended nurse …

The Mental Health Authority has disclosed that the leading causes of suicidal deaths in the country are; divorce, breakups, unemployment and financial distress. The Chief Executive of the Mental Health Authority, Prof. Akwasi Osei made this revelation while speaking at the launch of the WHO Director General’s Special Initiative for …