The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has issued guidelines to help individuals cope with the prevailing harsh weather conditions in the country, characterized by dryness, dust, and high temperatures. The month of February has witnessed extremely harsh weather conditions, with dryness and dust contributing to a high Air Quality Index, as reported by the Environmental Protection […]
More Ghanaians, living with HIV are now enjoying healthier lives and living longer. Also, the rate of new HIV infections and HIV-related mortality rates is declining. The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who disclosed this, attributed these achievements to the combination of anti-retrovirals (ARV) with comprehensive prevention strategies. “ARVs […]
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is working with Interpol to identify and trace health workers who were granted study leave with pay to pursue programmes but failed to return to serve their bond terms on completion of their courses. The move is aimed at compelling those beneficiaries to refund the salaries they enjoyed enabling them […]
The country is expected to fund fully its national immunisation programme with domestic funds by the close of 2030. This has been necessitated by the country’s attainment of a middle-income status and the subsequent drying up of funds from the development partners (DPs). The Global Vaccine Alliance, GAVI, has been supporting the country’s immunisation programme […]
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 Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said routine childhood immunisation for the three conditions that has been interrupted due to shortage of vaccines has been restored. This follows the arrival of a consignment of the vaccines in the country over the weekend and their subsequent distribution across the country. Although the immunisation resumes today, on […]
Between 2021 and last year, 27 pregnant women in need of critical medical attention died in the Bawku municipality, a senior health officer at the Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Majeed Sulemana, has disclosed. Whereas 20 of the pregnant women died in 2021, seven had died by the end of […]
The Regional Director of Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the North East Region, Dr Abdulai Abukari, says 328,691 persons were successfully vaccinated in the region, representing 84.1 per cent, the highest percentage coverage in the country. “It is a position we have held for several months now, and we hope to maintain […]
The Ghana Health Service will from today to January 24, roll out the latest phase of a nationwide mass COVID-19 vaccination exercise to help increase the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine. The exercise is the sixth in the series of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Days Campaign launched in February last year, to enhance uptake and […]
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) began conducting a mass deworming exercise across 15 regions from yesterday, November 21 to December 9, 2022. The exercise is targeted at 1.94 million schoolchildren aged between five and 14. It is being undertaken in 11,322 public and private schools in 89 districts spread across the 15 regions, except the […]
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 […]
