HEALTH

Ghana has become the first country in West Africa to deploy a system for the digital verification of COVID-19 PCR test results based on the African Union Trusted Travel and ECOWAS BIOMARS standard. The Ministry of Health, through the Ghana Health Service, spearheaded the project which aims to ease verification …

Many people, including health officials, have praised a 33-year-old midwife for her selflessness and commitment in saving the lives of pregnant women and their unborn babies in a hard-to-reach community in the Ashanti region. Without access to an ambulance, Delali Gavor of the local Motokrodua Community Health Planning and Services …

A lecturer at the University of Nottingham, Professor Noel Tagoe has described as over-ambitious government’s decision to undertake ‘Agenda 111’ health infrastructure. Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Tuesday, the educationist said although the project will contribute immensely to the country’s health sector, it could also impede the future …

The Universal Plant Medicine and Traditional Healers Association are appealing to the  President of Republic of Ghana,Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to endorse herbal medicine to encourage more Ghanaians patronize it. Addressing the media, the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Hepa Plus Mixture who is a member of the Association, Dr …

  Miss Afia Serwaa Nkrante, the women’s commissioner for the National Physician Assistant students Association of Ghana has called for more attention to be given to preventable chronic diseases so as to reduce its prevalence. She said this at a health screening exercise organized by the LADIES WING of PASAG-NATIONAL …

Ghana’s Covid-19 deaths have risen to 713 following the confirmation of eight more fatalities by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The latest update from the GHS further indicated that 40 people are in severe condition with 17 others in critical condition. However, the country’s active cases have declined to 3,343 …

      Ghana’s latest case count on the coronavirus disease has seen approximately 88,421 cumulative cases recorded since the outbreak of the disease last year.   Released on Wednesday, March 17, the latest case count also sees 193 new infections recorded while seven persons have unfortunately succumbed to the …

Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, the Advisor to the President on Health, says Ghana has a strong enough monitoring system for adverse effects of the coronavirus vaccine. These include follow-up protocols and a feedback form, Dr. Nsiah-Asare noted on the Citi Breakfast Show. His comments were in relation to recent developments with …

Assin Central lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong has said he is against the free supply of coronavirus vaccines to Ghana. He said the free supply of the vaccines to developing countries by the developed economies will further increase the overreliance on them by 3rd world countries for support. Speaking on his television …

Frontline health workers at the Tamale COVID-19 treatment centre have threatened to lay down their tools by Friday 12th March over the government’s failure to pay them the 50 percent basic salary allowance which has been in arrears since last year. In a statement sighted by Citi News, they highlighted …