Tag Archives: Ghana Health Service

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has reassigned 15 Regional Health Directors as part of efforts to strengthen healthcare delivery across the country. The new appointments, which take effect from April 14, 2025, aim to improve efficiency and ensure the achievement of GHS objectives. Among the key changes, the Regional Director …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the rising respiratory infections, particularly those caused by the Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV). In a statement, GHS noted the infection is currently spreading across China and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Given this, the Service has put heightened monitoring measures in place, emphasising …

The death toll from the cholera outbreak in parts of Ghana has shot up to 37, with the number of confirmed cases also increasing from 346 to 359, as of December 26, 2024 The two new deaths were recorded in the Western region. This has prompted the Ghana Health Service …

The Ghana Health Service has revealed that a total of 3,688 health personnel have left the country to seek greener pastures within the last three years. The Ghana Health Service says the figure comprises professional and critical caregivers. Some health professionals leaving the country have cited poor working conditions in …

The Director of the Ghana Health Service’s (GHS) regional office in the Ashanti Region, Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang, has disclosed that most of the nurses eloping the country for greener pastures abroad do so by taking a ‘leave without pay’ from their various departments. Speaking in an interview with journalists, Dr. …

The Internal Audit Authority (IAA) in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) inaugurated the Audit Committees of the Health Sector Institutions under the GHS. According to the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate, the audit Committee will support the Service in their financial management for prudent use of funds and enable …

The Director of Health Promotions at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Aboagye Dacosta has filed his nomination to contest in the New Patriotic Party parliamentary primaries in the Kumawu Constituency of the Ashanti Region. This comes ahead of primaries for the upcoming by-election in the Kumawu Constituency following the death …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the invasion of a new breed of mosquito more dangerous than the anopheles. The new breed known as Anopheles Stephensi, is also a malaria-transmitting mosquito, very invasive, spreads faster, and can adopt to a myriad of climate conditions according to the World Health …

After months of shortage of child immunisation vaccines, the Health Ministry and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have received the first consignment of vaccines. In a press statement on social media, the Information Ministry noted that the vaccines that have arrived include measles vaccines, BCG vaccines and Oral Polio Vaccines. …

The Ghana Health Service says it is on full alert following the confirmation of two Lassa fever cases in Accra, which resulted in one person dying. In an interview aired on Joy News Desk on Monday, the Director of Public Health at the GHS, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe says the Service …