HEALTH

Government’s ambitious hospitals initiative dubbed Agenda 111 is set to commence in August 2021. Presenting the 2021 mid-year budget review in Parliament on Thursday, July 29, 2021, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, disclosed that the government has decided to execute the initiative in two phases with the first phase …

  The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced to recruit Allied Health Professionals and Pharmacy Cadres who completed various public and private training institutions and wrote their licensure examination in 2019. In a statement copied to MyGhanaMedia.com, the Ministry said the recruitment portal from Tuesday, August 3, 2021, will be …

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has approved two more COVID-19 vaccines for importation, distribution and use in Ghana. The two new vaccine4s are Moderna (Spikevax) and Pfizer-BioNtech (Cominaty).             This brings the total number of approved COVID-19 vaccines for the use in Ghana to …

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has issued an alert to residents within the metropolis to adhere to all the safety protocols of Covid-19 as a matter of urgency. According to a press release issued on Monday, July 19, the Covid cases within the metropolis have been on an upsurge. It …

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, on Monday, July 19 appeared before the nine-member bi-partisan committee set up by Parliament to probe the botched contract between the government of Ghana and Emirati middleman Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum to procure Sputnik V vaccines. It was the second time the …

2,323 students from a total of 363 schools have tested positive for COVID-19 since the resumption of schools in January 2021. This was disclosed by the Director of Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye at a press briefing on Wednesday, July 14, 2021.       Breaking down the figures, …

“We don’t have a culture of asking questions’, host of Joy FM’s Home Affairs, Edem Knight-Tay would remark to her guest, Dr Matthew Yamoah Kyei, a consultant urologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. But under the relative anonymity of radio, the men would emerge from their hideouts, revealing on Joy …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced that 89 out of the 135 students of Achimota school who tested positive for the deadly Delta variant of the coronavirus have recovered,. Between the 14th and 16th June 2021, 3 students were presented to the Achimota School Sickbay with influenza-like symptoms, a …

The health secretary of the United Kingdom (UK) MattHancock, has resigned after he allegedly breached COVID-19 social distancing guidance by kissing a colleague. In a letter addressed to the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, dated the 26th of June 2021, hon Hancock said he writes to resign as secretary of state for …

One of the hospitals being constructed by Egyptian firm, Euroget De-Invest, for the government is expected to be ready in a month as engineers put finishing touches on its construction. The Konongo District Hospital is currently 97 per cent complete, according to site engineers, and what remains to be done …