Professor Akwasi Osei, a member of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, has stated that homosexuality is an abnormal behaviour, mostly learned. He said homosexuality is not biologically determined. Prof Osei, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, said the argument that “homosexuality is normal” […]
The Upper West Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Damien Punguyire, has appealed to the people in the region to avail themselves of the ongoing yellow fever vaccination exercise in the area for the sake of the health of the public. He said although the exercise was aimed at protecting people from the high yellow […]
A new research, conducted by WaterAid, an NGO, has found out that sanitation workers have been forgotten as frontline workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The research, carried out in South Asia, Burkina Faso and Nigeria, also found out that many of the sanitation workers in developing countries had been forgotten, underpaid, unprotected […]
The Acting Head of the Disease Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Dennis Laryea says door handles at public places do not necessarily spread COVID-19 infection. He said some members of the public used their elbows to open doors at public places, insisting that “Don’t worry about touching door handles, what you do after […]
The government is expecting more than 18 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the coming days to augment the national fight against the virus. The expected consignment will comprise 1,330,270 doses of Pfizer from the US government through COVAX; 834,729 doses of AstraZeneca from the governments of UK, Denmark, Norway and the European Union […]
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS),Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has said the decline in COVID-19 infections provides the government a window to speed up with vaccinations to ensure that more people are protected against any future surge in infections. “There is a surge in the availability of vaccines and persons vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalised, so this is the […]
The United States Government is to donate 1.3 million Pfizer vaccines to Ghana to aid the national plan to inoculate 20 million Ghanaians by the end of the year. The gesture would add to the 1.2 million Moderna shots received by Ghana from the United States on September 4, 2021. US Vice President Kamala Harris […]
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has indicated that it will from Friday, September 24, continue its immunization exercise in the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate for Ghanaian citizens who have not been vaccinated against the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the GHS in its press statement, individuals who have received the first jab of AstraZeneca vaccines […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described as an “unfortunate development” the recent decision of some European countries not to recognise the Covishield, the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in India. According to the President, It was intriguing that the Covishield vaccine was donated to African countries through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility. Addressing […]
General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Justice Yankson has explained that not every bad experience with a health facility should be construed as medical negligence. “Technically speaking, negligence is not coterminous with careless acts,” he said. Dr Yankson said, “in a straight legal analysis, negligence means more than a careless conduct, whether in […]
The military hospital currently under construction at Afari in Kumasi is on schedule to be completed this year, the Ministry of Defence has assured. With work done so far estimated to be 92 per cent, the Deputy Minister of Defence, Mr Kofi Amankwa Manu, said there is hardly any anticipated hitches given the relevant arrangements […]
More than 1.2 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States arrived in Ghana on Saturday morning. US Ambassador Stephanie Sullivan, Deputy Minister of Health, Honorable Mahama Asei Seini, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Honorable Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, and the UNICEF Country Representative to Ghana Ms Anne-Claire Dufay received […]
