Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, the Chief of Staff, has commissioned an ultra-modern oxygen plant for the 37 Military Hospital at a ceremony in Accra. The hospital, since 2009, has been operating a 20 normal meter cube Linde oxygen plant, which was bedeviled with frequent break downs. The new 50 Newton-meter cube production plant, is three times […]
Even before Vice-President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia officially launches Zipline’s drone delivery of emergency medical supplies today, the state-of-the-art technology has already saved the life of a 44-year-old driver. Today’s launch follows the completion of the infrastructure, with successful trials of the drones in the Omenako centre, near Suhum in the Eastern Region. The commencement […]
The Africa Centre for Health Policy Research and Analysis (ACH-PRA) is asking the Minister for Health to step up his game by devising innovative ways to salvage the National Health Insurance Scheme from its skyrocketing debts. The Policy Think-tank which just issued a document entitled ‘’is government contributing to the collapse of the NHIS and […]
As part of measures to bridge the Doctor-Patient ratio in the country, the Ghana National Petroleum Cooperation (GNPC) Foundation together with the Ministry of Health has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Cuba to train 170 Medical students and 30 specialists in Cuba. The Ministries of Health for the two countries […]
More than 30 per cent of the about 5,000 medical laboratory practitioners in the various health institutions, including government hospitals, do not have licences permitting them to undertake such medical duties, the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has stated. According to the President of the association, Dr Ignatius A.N. Awinibuno, a survey conducted […]
Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, targets revenue generation by serving as a gateway and a hub for medical tourism by 2020. Regulators such as Dubai Health Authority (DHA), Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), Dubai Future Foundation/Dubai Future Accelerators and Healthcare industry stakeholders are working in tandem to achieve […]
A total of 157 out of 225 foreign trained Ghanaian doctors have failed the Medical and Dental Council (MDC)’s examination which grants them the licences to practice in Ghana. Only 68, representing a 30.2 per cent pass rate, were able to prove their mettle in the examination conducted from February 22, 2019 to March 2, […]
The Deputy Minister for Health, Tina Naa Ayeley Mensah has urged unemployed private nurses to desist from picketing to demand employment as their action does not move the Ministry one bit. The Coalition of Unemployed Private Nurses (COUPN) has given the government a 10-day ultimatum to find its members jobs or face a demonstration. The […]
The Ministry of Planning has called for an inter-ministerial meeting to accelerate progress to tackle malnutrition in Ghana. The high-level meeting was to provide opportunity for the different ministries to better understand their roles and contributions to improving the nutrition status of all citizenry throughout their cycle and contribution to sustainable development. It was also […]
In ten working days, aggrieved privately trained nurses would demonstrate to the government that they have had enough. The nurses have spent more than four years idling at home but now find themselves at their wit’s end. “This is not fair,” one of them fumed in an interview with Joy News’ Roland Walker on the […]
An extremely malnourished child whose plight was shared on social media by some concerned citizens has received support from some public spirited individuals and is currently on admission at the Princess Marie Louis Hospital, otherwise known as the Children’s Hospital in Accra. Naa Adaku Addo Golda who published the plight of the child on her […]
The Wa Regional Hospital in the Upper West Regional Capital has been hit with a massive shortage of beds, particularly in the Children’s ward. The situation has culminated in children having to receive treatment on the bare floor for some time now. This website is reliably informed that the situation has persisted for some time […]
