HEALTH

The Chief Executive Officer for  Peace And Love Hospital Breast care International and former chair of the Ghana Cancer Board, Dr Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has revealed that over 2000 women died from breast cancer in 2020.   Speaking to the Asaase radio , Dr Addai said the deaths were partly …

The Ghana AIDS Commission has discovered “new behaviours” among young people which the commission says are the cause of the high rise of HIV infections. Figures from the commission show that 12,000 people died from HIV related causes in 2020 while 5,000 young people contracted the virus. The data revealed …

The Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Steve Gyeremeh Atuahene, has disclosed that certain behaviours among young people are partly to blame for the rise in the number of HIV infections in 2020.     Per the records of the Commission, over 12,000 people perished from HIV related causes in …

The Members of the Coalition of Rotational Nurses and Midwives have served notice to begin an industrial action on October 1.     This, according to the coalition, has become necessary following the failure to pay their allowances since February this year.     A letter written to the National …

The Ghana Health Service will today, Friday, innoculate Ghanaians above the age of 17years who have not yet been vaccinated against the Covid-19 pandemic in the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate.   Aside from that section of the general public, individuals who have received just the first jab of the …

The ever increasing population in the capital, Accra, coupled with other daunting challenges like the perennial flooding in most areas of the capital continues to form basis for Ghana to get a new capital city. That’s the perspective of the Member of Parliament for Klottey-Korle Constituency.   According to her, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …