The Bongo District Hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana is congested forcing authorities to box both women and children on admission in the same ward due to lack of facilities. The worst of it is that more than two child Patients share same bed putting pressure on health workers. Child patients are forced […]
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has asked its members to stay resolute in the face of “threats and intimidations” from government.
The National Service Scheme says it will no longer consider requests from service personnel for change of postings on health grounds. According to a statement signed by the Acting Executive Director, Dr. Michael Kpessa-Whyte, management is overwhelmed by the seeming abuse of requests for change of postings based on one health condition or the other,
A new national medicine policy is to be introduced soon into Ghana to actualize the commitment of the government of Ghana towards the goal of ensuring universal access to affordable essential medicines of assured quality for all persons living in the country. The policy which is currently in its draft stage was reviewed by stakeholders
Reports reaching our news desk confirm that the American man who was quarantined at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra on suspicion of carrying the Ebola virus has died. Sources at the Health Ministry say the man died on Monday. Meanwhile, The Health Ministry could not confirm or deny whether he died of the Ebola virus
By Kpakpo Addo – Tema, Ghana Tema township is a place built by Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah to house the workers of the burgeoning industries that he had set up. Among some of the places built as residential complexes for workers of these industries were site 20, site 2, site1 etc. This news letter
By Isaac Bediako Justice KUMASI, Ghana – Ghana’s second largest Hospital, the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) is keeping a baby girl abandoned by the mother at the facility two weeks ago. The four-month-old baby is being kept at the maternity block and is reported to be doing well. The mother had left her in
