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U/E: Community Maternity Block In Garu In Need

A two-room structure built by community members to serve as a maternity block in the Dabilla in the Garu District of Upper East Region is in need of logistics to serve its purpose. The community members have had to put up their own makeshift structure to serve their maternity needs …

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Check Out Where To Get 2nd Dose Of AstraZeneca Vaccine From Aug 31 To Sept. 4

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will from Tuesday, August 31, begin the administration of the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccines to persons 18 years and above. This batch of people must be those who received their first dose of vaccine from March 10 to March 29, 2021. All eligible for …

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Agenda 111: Hardship Allowance To Be Introduced For Rural Health Professionals – Nsiah Asare

The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, says finding health professionals to populate government’s Agenda 111 hospitals is top on their priorities list. This, he says, is because of the ongoing brain drain depriving the nation of its much-needed professionals to man the health sector and various other …

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W/R: Covid-19 Patient Found Dead After Allegedly Escaping From Admission [Photos]

A 55-year-old Covid-19 patient has been found dead after he escaped from the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital’s Covid Center in the Western Region. Narrating the sad event to Connect FM on Thursday, August 19, Deputy Director of Nursing Services for Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital Justina Amo Yartey said the deceased, …

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Stephen Ayesu Ntim Calls On Ghanaians To Support Agenda 111

Former 1st vice National Chairman and aspiring National Chairman for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Stephen Ayesu Ntim, has called on Ghanaians to rally behind Agenda 111 with their unmodifiable support. Agenda 111 initiative is part of Government’s intervention to construct 111 hospitals as a result of the outbreak …

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COVID-19; President Sacks Health Minister

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday sacked Health Minister Pavithra Wanniaarachchi and reshuffled his cabinet amidst growing opposition criticism that some of the ministries, including health, were under-performing as the Coronavirus pandemic worsened.   The changes were made in the foreign, education, transport, media, power and energy portfolios.   …

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Government Sets Aside $100M For Commencement Of Agenda 111 Hospitals

Government says it has set aside an amount of US$100 million as commencement funding for its ambitious Agenda 111 project, which is aimed at scaling up healthcare infrastructure in the country. The money has been made available for the first phase of the initiative, which will see to the construction …

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I Have Been Guided By Mandate To Protect Public Purse And Save Lives At All Times – Agyeman-Manu

Embattled Health Minister in his first press release after the brouhaha surrounding the botched procurement of Sputnik-V vaccines from Sheikh Al-Maktoum says he has been observing the national interest surrounding his role in the deal. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu said his actions since his assumption of office has been to “protect the …

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GHS To Begin Offering Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Shots Today

The Ghana Health Service is expected to begin giving out jabs of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against the COVID-19 virus in the Greater Accra Region today, Friday, August 13, 2021. Vaccine shots in other coronavirus hotspots such as the Ashanti Region will begin on Monday, August 16, 2021.   …

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COVID-19: Delta Variant Kills Three Children In Accra

Children between 22 months and 11 years are contracting the coronavirus in Ghana’s third wave of infection, health officials have said. Speaking on Asaase Radio’s The Big Bulletin on Tuesday, Dr Frank Owusu-Sekyere, who is in charge of the Ghana Medical Association’s COVID -19 team for the Greater Accra Region, …

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