HEALTH

The management and staff of Noguchi Memorial Institute and Medical Research has turned away some Ghanaians who were seeking for free COVID-19 tests. This comes after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced during his 23rd Update on measures his government has taken against the Coronavirus pandemic that COVID-19 tests are …

  Ghana’s Ministry of Health (MoH)  has announced to begin recruitment of Medical Doctors and Dentists who have completed their house job and permanently registered with the Medical and Dental Council, being part of the 21st list compiled by the council. According to the Ministry of Health (MOH), the recruitment …

Ghana recorded 8,037 deaths from cancer-related diseases in 2020, Dr. (Mrs) Beatrice Wiafe Addai, the former Chairperson of the Ghana Cancer Board, has disclosed. Giving the breakdown, the Consultant Surgeon said, out of the figure, 2,055 related to breast cancer, 3,166 to liver cancer, 1,117 to prostate and 1,699 to …

Nine students have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Bono Region, officials of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have confirmed. The students are from two Senior High Schools and a Teacher Training College in the region. The Bono Regional Deputy Director for Public Health of the GHS, Dr John Ekow …

A private school at Akosombo in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern Region has recorded 40 confirmed cases of Covid-19. This was revealed by the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the region, Dr. Winfred Ofosu. Although he refused to name the school, Dr. Ofosu indicated that …

Head of Human Resource at the Prudential Bank has reportedly succumbed to complications of the Coronavirus.   Atinkaonline reports that Naa Adoley Ankrah passed on while receiving treatment at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra on Tuesday, February 2, 2021.   The report further indicates that close family relations who confirmed …

Some 429 nurses and midwives whose names were presented to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to benefit from government’s insurance package, cannot benefit from the programme. The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association has said it presented a list of 500 of its members serving as front line workers in …

The government has clarified what it meant by the ban on weddings following the re-introduction of COVID-19 restrictions to slow the spread of the second wave of the virus.   The indefinite suspension of weddings as announced by President Akufo-Addo during his 23rd Coronavirus update last Sunday has left many …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says twenty positive cases of COVID-19 have been recorded cumulatively in some schools in the Greater Accra Region. According to the Ghana Health Service, there is a limited outbreak of the virus also in some schools in the Upper West and the Western Regions. Providing …

  The regulatory agency has approved local medicine ‘Cryptolepis Sanguinolenta’, popularly known as Nibima, for clinical trial on COVID-19 treatment The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has approved Ghana’s first herbal medicine for clinical trial on COVID-19 treatment. This follows results from laboratory studies conducted by the Kwame Nkrumah University …