Five people have reportedly died after eating a meal of rice and beans, popularly known as waakye, they bought from a food joint at Oyibi Bush Canteen Junction, in Accra. About 40 people were reportedly affected, out of which five, including a pregnant woman and a lotto vendor, died. The victims including the waakye seller, […]
The Ministry of Health has given an assurance that efforts are being made to renegotiate the vaccine acquisition contract with the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) as recommended by the Auditor General’s Special Report on government’s COVID-19 expenditure. However, it did not state emphatically if the renegotiation would facilitate the recovery of the outstanding balance […]
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has launched the National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) report for 2019, 2020 and 2021, which shows that the country spent $323.7 million in the years under review. The report showed that the total HIV and AIDS-related expenditure for 2019, 2020 and 2021 stood at $88,648,568, $107,280,242 and $127,828,300, respectively. The […]
The Ghana National Electronic Pharmacy Platform, otherwise known as e-Pharmacy platform, goes live nationwide today, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced. Ghana’s nationwide e-pharmacy platform is a platform of registered pharmacies, which allows the Ghanaian public the ease of uploading and buying prescribed medicines on the platform and getting them delivered to their locations, […]
Passengers originating from China will be required to undergo free mandatory COVID-19 testing on arrival at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) as part of updated travel guidelines for visiting the country. The passengers from China must also present a valid negative COVID-19 PCR test result 48 hours prior to departure from their originating country per […]
A total of 60 babies were delivered at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on Christmas and Boxing Day. 25 of them were delivered on Christmas eve while the rest were delivered between Christmas Day and early hours of Boxing Day. To congratulate and welcome the newly born, MTN Ghana Foundation distributed hampers to the new mothers […]
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) will from next 2023 add the treatment and medication for prostate cancer to the number of cancers treated free under the scheme. This is after the completion of actuarial studies conducted by the scheme proved its feasibility and practicality and is concluding with other final touches for takeoff. The Chief Executive of the NHIA, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, announced this when […]
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has revised its policies to enable Ghanaians, 70 years and above, to access health services on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) without hindrances. Although persons in that group are exempted, they still needed to register to sign onto the scheme, subscribe to the service, hold a valid NHIS […]
One of the conjoined twins at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge), has passed away, Graphic Online has gathered. There is yet to be an official communication on it but a source has said it happened two nights ago [Thursday, December 1, 2022] during the final stage of surgery to separate them. Ridge Hospital to […]
The General Secretary of Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), has said the nurse who was verbally assaulted by the Ashanti Regional Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Alex Opoku-Mensah, has been removed from the Manhyia District Hospital. Speaking in an interview on JoyNews’ The Pulse on Tuesday, Mr. David Tenkoreng-Twum explained that the removal of the […]
Majority of Ghanaians are overweight or obese, the Ghana Obesity Survey 2021 has found. The first ever most comprehensive survey on obesity and other lifestyle behaviours in the country found that 85 per cent of Ghanaians do not eat healthily, while more than 50 per cent are either obese or overweight. The study, conducted in […]
The HIV population among children aged one to four years was 7,699 in 2020, while new infections in children of the same age group in 2021 were 443. “This is not good because most of these children got it from their mothers. They were mainly mother-to-child transmissions and that is something we have to avoid,” […]
