Enthusiasm for COVID-19 vaccines is steadily growing among the public in parts of the country, the Daily Graphic has observed. Seven days into the month-long mandatory vaccination exercise, visits to some vaccination centres reveal that more people are accessing vaccination services, unlike the situation that pertained prior to the institution of the Vaccination Month, which […]
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS),Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has said the decline in COVID-19 infections provides the government a window to speed up with vaccinations to ensure that more people are protected against any future surge in infections. “There is a surge in the availability of vaccines and persons vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalised, so this is the […]
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has indicated that it will from Friday, September 24, continue its immunization exercise in the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate for Ghanaian citizens who have not been vaccinated against the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the GHS in its press statement, individuals who have received the first jab of AstraZeneca vaccines […]
General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Justice Yankson has explained that not every bad experience with a health facility should be construed as medical negligence. “Technically speaking, negligence is not coterminous with careless acts,” he said. Dr Yankson said, “in a straight legal analysis, negligence means more than a careless conduct, whether in […]
The Ghana Heath Service (GHS) has intensified community surveillance to ascertain whether the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant is spreading within communities. This has become necessary because the service believes the new variant, which has been detected among international travellers, could be the reason a high number of people exposed to the virus are falling […]
Ghana’s COVID-19 case count is now 5,127, from 4,700 previously. The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Aboagye who made the announcement a while ago, said 427 new cases were recorded. According to Dr. Aboagye, 277 of the new cases were recorded on May 9, 160 on May 10 and the rest […]
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says over 500 of the 921 new Covid-19 cases recorded on May 8, 2020, are from an industrial facility in the country. Ghana has recorded 921 new cases of the disease which has resulted in the national tally shooting to 4,012 in just 24 hours. The new cases have left […]
Ghana’s COVID-19 case count has reached One Thousand, One Hundred and Fifty Four (1154) according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The figure was disclosed by the Ghana Health Service at the regular press briefings on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. BestNewsGH.com reports the GHS as explaining that the country’s total recoveries from the virus currently […]
Crisis Management Company, LCB Worldwide Ghana Limited has in partnership with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), began the disinfection of the various hotels in Accra, that were used as holding centers or quarantine centers for travelers who arrived in the country. The exercise forms part of Government and the Ghana Health Service’s efforts to ensure […]
Former President John Dramani Mahama has been badly exposed over claims that he deliberately selected female Muslim students to be sent to Cuba and trained in gynaecology in order to be able to review their fellow Muslim women who have difficulty to consult male gynaecologists when they have to go and consult medically for their […]
By Richard SEWU Residents of Tomefa in the Ga-South Municipal Assembly are calling on government to start operating a clinic which was established in their community two years ago. According to the residents, they do not know how long it would take government to start operating the clinic. They complained of travelling a long distance […]
Zipline, the world’s first national-scale drone delivery service, will begin the initial testing and diagnostic flights from its first distribution centre in Omenako in the Eastern Region in the first week of March. The test, which will be in two stages, will start with technical test, and at this stage, no delivery of medicinal supplies […]
