The Deputy Minister for Health, Tina Naa Ayeley Mensah has urged unemployed private nurses to desist from picketing to demand employment as their action does not move the Ministry one bit. The Coalition of Unemployed Private Nurses (COUPN) has given the government a 10-day ultimatum to find its members jobs or face a demonstration. The […]
In ten working days, aggrieved privately trained nurses would demonstrate to the government that they have had enough. The nurses have spent more than four years idling at home but now find themselves at their wit’s end. “This is not fair,” one of them fumed in an interview with Joy News’ Roland Walker on the […]
The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has refused to append their signature to a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) which was presented to them by the Minister for Health when they met to discuss their grievances. The mortuary workers who had earlier indicated their preparedness to embark on an indefinite strike action over poor working […]
The Mortuary Worker Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has served notice that its members across the country in government hospitals and health facilities will lay down their tools from March 6, 2019 in protest of poor working conditions. Its General Secretary, Richard Kofi Jordan speaking on Accra based okay Fm and monitored by BestNewsGH.com opined that […]
The Ministry of Health has ordered heads of all public health training institutions to send away all fee-owing students. A notice issued by the Ministry under the hand of the deputy Minister for Health Tina Mensah and dated December, 28, 2018 raised concern about the inability of some students to pay their school fees. “It […]
A United States of America based company, the Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association Humanitarian Emergency Logistics Program (MAMA-HELP) has revealed how the Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu refused a deal with them, that would have seen the deliver free medical equipment including drones to the country. The company’s revelation comes on the back of the […]
The Executive Director of the African Center for Health Policy and Research Analysis (ACH-PRA), Dr. Thomas Anaba has reacted to president Akufo-Addo’s pronouncements on the drones for medical deliveries controversy. The president during the recently held media encounter announced that the project was not going to be funded by the tax payer, but private entities […]
The Executive Director of the African Centre for Health Policy Research and Analysis (ACH-PRA), Dr. Thomas Anaba has jabbed the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, labeling him incompetent and someone who is engaged in politics to appease his paymasters and in order to keep his position. According to the […]
The Ghana Health Service has assured that the drone healthcare service will help save lives, decrease waste in the system and increase healthcare access for more than 14 million people nationwide. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday 4th December, 2018, the Director General of the GHS, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare expressed worry over the continuous […]
The Ghana Medical Association has revealed that about 500 medical doctors are stuck at home because government has not given financial clearance for them to be absorbed into the system, and they fear the country might lose some of them to foreign countries if urgent steps are not taken to ensure they are employed. President […]
Mortuary men in the country are lacing their boots for a nation-wide strike action from the 20th of November 2018, in protest over poor working conditions. General Secretary of the Mortuary workers Association of Ghana, Richard Kofi Jordan speaking on Accra based okay Fm, said they have been taken for granted over the years and […]
The National Health Insurance Authority says it is in the process of appointing a suitably qualified company to partner it to migrate from the current manual processing of claims, to an electronic management of claims. The Authority says it is currently in the procurement process and has called for companies with the expertise, capacity and […]
