The Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA) has shut down the Advanced Body Sculpt Centre, also known as the Obengfo Hospital located at Weija in Accra for operating without license. A team, led by the Registrar of HeFRA, Dr Philip Bannor closed the facility Friday morning [January 29, 2021] as part of an enforcement exercise being […]
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WHO recommends new advice for COVID-19 treatment
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued new advice on how to treat patients suffering from COVID-19. For COVID-19 patients at home, the WHO is suggesting the use of a pulse oximetry machine to measure oxygen levels in the blood – but warns that this needs to be coordinated with other aspects of home care, […]
LCB Worldwide Ghana moves to curb COVID-19 at funeral of former President Rawlings
Renowned crisis management company, LCB Worldwide Ghana Limited in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has initiated a giant move aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 as the nation mourns the passing of the first president of the 4th Republic, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. To this end, the company has disinfected the […]
COVID-19: All 16 regions record active cases – Ghana Health Service
The Ghana Health Service has confirmed that the Covid-19 virus has now spread to all 16 regions of the country. The Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who disclosed this said the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western Regions are the biggest hotspots. He said the situation has changed since President Akufo-Addo said during his 22nd national […]
New COVID-19 variant not recorded at Community level-GHS
Ghana has not recorded any community case of the new variant of the Coronavirus disease although a few cases have been recorded at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra. The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who made this known at a press briefing in Accra on Monday, said a […]
Safety Of Students Is Our Collective Responsibility’-ZOOMLION
As basic and senior high schools (SHSs) get ready to reopen on Friday, January, January 15, the Vector Control Officer, Eastern Region, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), Mr Maxwell Agbosu, has indicated that the safety of pupils and students is a collective responsibility of stakeholders in the midst of the new coronavirus diseases (Covid-19). According to […]
Start COVID-19 vaccine public education now – GMA to NCCE
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is proposing the start of a public sensitisation on COVID-19 vaccines even before the first consignment arrives in Ghana. This, the GMA believes will help in public acceptance of the vaccines in Ghana when they arrive to help fight the coronavirus disease. In a radio interview with Accra based Citi FM Tuesday, […]
Basic & SHSs In Oti Benefit From Mass Disinfection
As part of the measures aimed at safe reopening of schools in the country, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) has begun disinfecting basic and senior high schools (SHSs) in the Oti Region. The exercise—which kicked-off Saturday, January 9, 2021—had already witnessed schools including Kedjebi Asato Senior High School and Poase Cement Roman Catholic Primary School and […]
Disinfection Of Schools Underway In Ashanti and Oti regions
About eighty-three senior high schools (SHSs) in the Ashanti Region stand to benefit from the fourth nationwide disinfection in education institutions. The exercise is aimed at making the schools safe for reopening as directed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his 21st Covid address to the nation. Among the schools disinfected on the first […]
Covid-19 Fight… Our Airports Are Safe —Travellers Reassured
In the wake of the Covid, the Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Mrs Emma Akyea-Boakye, has reassured travellers that the country’s airports were safe. She gave the assurance when Tamale Airport had its turn of the third phase of airport disinfection exercise in the country. According to her, the exercise has […]
Medical tourism has huge economic prospects – Health expert
The Resident doctor at Riva Swiss Hospital, Dr Michael Amfo Afriyie has urged government to commit to resourcing health facilities across the country in order to leverage on it tourism potential that comes with it. According to Dr. Afriyie, medical tourism is part of the tourism industry which definitely can have a big impact on […]
Riva Swiss Hospital inaugurated
A first class health facility, Riva Swiss located at Adadientem in the Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti region has been commissioned with a resolve to provide quality and affordable healthcare for all. The facility which has… is stocked with state of the art medical equipment that is capable of treating and diagnosing several ailments. Speaking […]