Quality healthcare delivery at the Upper West Regional Hospital is on a balance as the facility is currently grappling with a barrage of legal suits from its suppliers. Citi News‘ sources at the facility indicate that most companies providing medical supplies and other essentials have suspended their services and resorted to the law court to […]
A woman has died at Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital in Mampong Akuapem in the Eastern Region over unavailability of an ambulance. According to the Apesemakahene of Akuapem-Mampong Traditional Area, Nana Yirenkyi I, Nurses at the hospital claimed there was no ambulance to convey the deceased who was in critical condition to the Eastern Region Hospital, […]
The Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Sunday, 15th December, 2019, inspected ongoing works at the site for the third medical drone delivery service at Kukua near Walewale in the North East Region. When completed in January 2020, the facility will host the largest warehouse under the drone programme and immediately serve […]
The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) is demanding the payment of allowances of nurses and midwives interns on national service across the country to prevent any industrial action. The GRNMA alleges that the majority of these nurses have not been paid since April 2019. President of the Association, Dr. Kwaku Asante-Krobea in a […]
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), in collaboration with Transplant Links UK, has performed successful kidney transplant for four patients with kidney conditions in a major breakthrough in local medical practice. The transplant team at the KBTH was led by surgeons Dr Bernard Morton and Dr James Edward Mensah, and kidney specialists, Dr Vincent Bioma […]
The Bone Marrow Transplantation Ghana and the Sickle Cell Foundation Clinic of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital has taken delivery of the first-ever Apheresis Machine in Ghana to aid in better treatment of sickle cell disease. The Machine works in harvesting marrow of a compatible donor without subjecting the person to anaesthesia, processes it and […]
A New Jersey hospital accidentally gave a kidney to the wrong patient, officials have said. The transplant was intended for another person with the same name and of a similar age. Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden said both patients have now received transplants and are doing well. The mistake was discovered a […]
BestNewsGH.com can confirm that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr. Patrick Kuma Aboagye as the new Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, following the withdrawal of the appointment of Dr. Baffuor Awuah. Dr. Aboagye who until his appointment was the Director of Family Health at the Ghana Health Service, thus takes over from […]
There was a rich artistic display at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) last Friday when the school held a ‘Self-Care’ programme for students. Participants were also schooled on the techniques of painting and given the chance to watch the world blockbuster movie titled “Black Panther”. The students were also taken through […]
In a major step in the fight against Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the world’s first-ever vaccine against Ebola. The drug, called Ervebo and manufactured by MERCK pharmaceuticals, was being used in an experimental phase in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But now the WHO says there is sufficient evidence that shows […]
The Finance Minister has disclosed to parliament that the ruling government has through the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) purchased 307 ambulances for distributions to the various districts across the country. Delivering the 2020 budget statement on Wednesday November 14, 2019, the Minister through IPEP, some 200 dams have been completed with some others […]
Government has decided to distribute all 275 ambulances in January 2020, Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson has said. The reason, she explained, is to ensure a fair distribution of the ambulances across all 275 constituencies in the country. The first 48 ambulances, which arrived months ago are parked at the forecourt of […]
