Treatment for childhood cancers and the cost of Hydroxyurea, a drug used for the treatment of sickle cell anaemia, are now covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who announced this, said: “We have started with four cancers among children for now, but we are determined to expand in […]
The Marketing Director of Delta Paper Mill Limited, Barbara Incoom, has called on the public to embrace the use of disposable handkerchiefs instead of the traditional cloth handkerchief. She explained that the change was significant during post COVID-19 era as the country was making efforts to minimise the spread of disease-causing germs and bacteria. “I […]
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said one close contact in the new Marburg Virus Disease cases in Ghana reported symptoms after the maximum incubation period, the person tested positive together with his close contact (yet to be corroborated by IPD) but died on July 21, 2022. Currently, 40 additional contacts have been identified in the Savannah […]
An epidemiologist and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Professor Fred Newton Binka, has advocated the training of more people in the testing for and treatment of malaria. He said he was of the belief that if at least two million people were trained to test and treat malaria, it would […]
The Ghana Health Service has confirmed the first cases of the Marburg Virus Disease, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. It is only the second time the zoonotic disease has been detected in West Africa. Guinea confirmed a single case in an outbreak that was declared over […]
People who suffer Alzheimer’s, a brain disorder, can now heave signs of relief as a major headway has been made in diagnosing the disease with a single brain scan. A Professor of Cancer Pharmacology and Molecular Imaging at the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, Eric Aboagye, has led a team of researchers […]
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has reviewed upwards the agreed 2020 increment of medicine and service tariffs for service providers by 30 per cent effective July 1, 2022. This was after the scheme and stakeholders undertook a market survey of prices and agreed on the figure largely on the basis of inflation and some […]
Ghana’s active case count of COVID-19 has risen beyond 1,000 cases for the first time since a revision to the COVID-19 prevention measures was announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in March 2022. At the time the restrictions which included the mandatory wearing of face masks in public places were lifted, the country had […]
Three hundred and twenty patients who have fully recovered at the Pantang Hospital since 2016 have reconnected with their families. The cured patients, who were still at the hospital after their recovery, represented about 70 per cent of the 500 patients who were on admission at the facility before 2016. The hospital administration relied on […]
Speakers at the first senior managers meeting of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have underscored the need for the country to sustain the gains made in the fight against COVID-19, despite the lifting of the restrictions. That, they said, had been highlighted by the socio-economic challenges the pandemic posed. They, therefore, called on the public […]
The country’s land and sea borders have been opened from today, two years after COVID-19 travel restrictions were imposed. Besides, the wearing of face masks is no longer mandatory. These were the major highlights of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s 28th update on Ghana’s enhanced response to the COVID-19 pandemic delivered last night. According to […]
Work on the reconstruction of the La General Hospital has started, almost 19 months after a sod-cutting ceremony was performed for the commencement of work. This was after the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, signed off the development plan of the general hospital last Friday. After signing the redevelopment plan of the project at his […]
