HEALTH

A Pediatrician at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Ahor-Essel has cautioned parents to stop exposing babies with neonatal jaundice to the early morning sun as treatment for the condition. Neonatal jaundice is a liver condition that causes the yellowing of a newborn baby’s skin and eyes due to the excess …

The Minister of Health , Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has said it is too early for him to predict when the Agenda 111 project, a project initiated by the Akufo-Addo administration to build hospitals across the country, will be completed although the government is highly optimistic of finishing it.   He revealed …

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) of Ghana has released the licensing results of candidates who sat for the November, 2021 to March, 2022 examination. . In a statement sighted by MyGhanaMedia.com, “the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) wishes to inform its cherished stakeholders that the 15th Governing Board of …

Over 12,000 Registered Nurse Assistant Clinicals (RNAC)and Registered Nurse Assistant Preventive (RNAP) are still home after ministry of Health opened portal for them to apply for recruitment a month before 2020 presidential and parliamentary election. According to the concerned RNAC/RNAPs group, after six months, none of its members has been …

Ghana commemorated World Malaria Day on 25th April, 2022 under the theme “Advance equity. Build resilience. End Malaria”. This year’s theme is to help raise awareness of the urgent need for action and targeted scale-up of existing and new tool, such as new LLINs and the RTS, S Vaccine, as …

The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has asked government to take steps to ensure the malaria vaccine is available to the target population. On the commemoration of World Malaria Day on April 25, the Association noted that the prevention and control of malaria in the country demands continuous …

President Akufo-Addo has appointed former Ledzokuku MP, Bernard Okoe Boye as the acting Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). The appointment takes effect from Monday, May 3. The Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare in a letter explained that the appointment is pursuant to Section 14 (1) …

Staff of the Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua (ERHK), are donating blood to stock the blood bank of the hospital which has been hit by massive blood shortage. The hospital started experiencing blood shortage in 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic . However, the situation has not seen any …

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has explained the circumstances under which its allocation of the 2022 budget was approved by Parliament. The Chief Executive Officer of the authority, Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby addressing journalists in Accra debunked claims that the authority’s representatives were ‘sacked’ during its allocation formula meeting with …

The government has been urged to absorb the cost of sickle cell testing into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). This is to get more Ghanaians tested for sickle cell disease status and efficiently plan their lifestyle.   According to experts, the cost of sickle cell screening is at least …