Category: Health
Vaccines: Akufo-Addo’s 20million target unrealistic – Prof Awandare
Director of the West African Center for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), Professor Gordon Akanzuwine Awandare has told President Nana A [...]
FDA rallies stakeholder support to curb illicit trade of substandard medicine
The Foods and Drugs Authority (FDA) has expressed worry over the influx of Substandard and Fortified (SF) medicines on the market and had warned that [...]
COVID-19: GHS to administer Moderna vaccine this week
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will this week begin the inoculation of Ghanaians across the country, with the 1.2 million Mordena vaccines received fr [...]
‘Ebola is defeated’, says Congolese professor who discovered virus
Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the [...]
Weeklong torrential rainfall splits Daboya-Busunu road, Kia Truck sinks in flood waters
The Daboya-Busunu road in the North Gonja District of the Savannah Region, has bren splitted into halves cutting off over twenty communities away from [...]
Tackle high-rate avoidable NCD deaths – Dr Wiafe Addai urges gov’t
Chairperson of Ghana NCD Alliance, Dr Mrs Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has called for conscious efforts by the government to tackle the high rate of avoidabl [...]
Children under 12 will not be given Covid vaccination yet – French health director
France's director general of public health services says children under 12 years-of-age are not concerned by the Covid vaccination drive because of th [...]
Gov’t begins recruitment of medical & dental officers
The Ministry of Health has announced the commencement of recruitment of medical and dental officers who have completed their housemanship.
Eligible [...]
Eight in 10 African countries to miss crucial COVID-19 vaccination goal – WHO
Africa is set to miss the urgent global goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable 10% of every country’s population against COVID-19 by the end of Septe [...]
Mahama lied, Upper West Regional Hospital working well as expected – Health Director
Director of Health Services for the Upper West Region, Dr. Damien Punguyire has rubbished claim by former President John Dramani Mahama that the Regio [...]