HEALTH

One would like to enjoy a cold bottle of ‘brukina’ (or bokina), a dairy milk and millet mixture, to release some stress on a sunny afternoon. But have you bothered to know what this meal contains? A research conducted by the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research at the University …

The Coalition of Health Workers on Krobo Land has appealed to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to restore power to the area for smooth health delivery. The health workers who are made up of anaesthetists, doctors, nurses, midwives, laboratory scientists, and pharmacists added that they will be forced to …

The Ghana Statistical Service has described as worrying the growing consumption of sachet water as its previous studies reveal significant faecal contamination in a number of the packaged water on the market. The Service indicates that consumption of sachet water by households in Ghana has quadrupled in the last decade, …

Emergency Medical Services are an integral part of any efficient health system. They are a lifeline as their inefficiency can drive a population’s high mortality. Research suggests that 90% of global injuries occur in lower-middle-income countries. Some of the reasons for this skewed distribution include poor road conditions, lack of …

The total confirmed cases of the monkeypox outbreak in Ghana is now 34 with the cases recorded in six regions. More than 50 percent of cases are in the Greater Accra Region. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said Greater Accra, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Eastern, and Upper West are …

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 …