Air pollution has been identified as a contributor to the growing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Accra, making it a major public health concern in the capital. The revelation, established by an investigation by the University of Ghana on clean air in Accra, mentioned the NCDs of concern to include lung cancer, chronic ischaemic heart diseases […]
The country has now transitioned into a more aggressive phase to eliminate malaria, a leading cause of death. The Ghana Health Service (GHS), which announced this yesterday, said the decision followed significant progress made in the control of the epidemic and lessons learnt over the years. Malaria prevalence had reduced from 27.5 per cent in […]
The 37 Military Hospital has issued a public service announcement regarding a forthcoming mass burial exercise for unidentified and unclaimed bodies in its morgue. The hospital authorities highlighted the need to address the issue as the accumulation of these bodies has caused congestion and hindered the efficiency of day-to-day operations at the facility. According to […]
A child-centered organisation, Child Rights International (CRI), has described as disturbing a recent data from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) that indicates that 50,000 infants lose their lives every year due to birth asphyxia. The organisation, has therefore, called for a probe to identify the underlying and related causes of deaths to inform policy decisions […]
An in-depth investigation is currently ongoing to establish the extent of black fly breeding sites or sources within the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality and Dawhenya in the Greater Accra Region. The effort at La Nkwantanang is being spearheaded by the Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit of the municipal assembly to enable the government and its agencies […]
A former Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority (MHA), Professor Akwasi Osei has urged the government to hasten slowly on the legal cultivation of cannabis in large quantities. To him, if care is not taken, people will cultivate the dangerous cannabis along side the one needed for medicinal purposes due to lack of […]
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) hit an active membership of 17.2 million by the end of 2022, representing approximately 55 per cent of the population. The figure is the highest membership of the scheme at any particular period. At a news conference in Accra last Friday, the Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance […]
Many places in the country have a high concentration of radon gas, a natural occurring gas whose long exposure to humans can cause lung cancer and other forms of cancers. An Associate Professor of Health Physics at the School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana, Professor Joseph K. Amoako, who disclosed this in […]
Within the last 30 days, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has paid GH¢367 million to more than 4,500 credentialed facilities across the country to cover claims of up to December 2022. The authority is expected to make further payments in the next few weeks to cover January to March 2023 claims to bring the […]
A study conducted in three selected public universities in the country has revealed that 93 per cent of sexually active adolescents in public universities do not use contraceptives. This is in spite of the fact that 80 per cent of them had a basic knowledge of adolescent sexual reproductive health (ASRH) issues. Conducted among 675 […]
A study conducted by three institutions has revealed that seven per cent of the country’s productivity is lost to ordinary Ghanaians due to mental health. The study by the University of Ghana’s Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), in collaboration with the Yale University and the Department of Psychiatry Department of the University […]
A Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of the National Cardiothoracic Centre at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Professor Mark Tettey, has advised men who suffer from sexual weakness after taking antihypertensive drugs to consult their doctors for other medications instead of abandoning treatment altogether. Prof. Tettey said hypertension as a condition affected sexual function, hence […]
