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 […]
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1.5m pregnant mothers to benefit from GE Vscan by 2020
The number of pregnant wedding benefiting from Vscan Access Task Shifting Programme is expected to hit 1.5 million by 2020. The programme is being implemented by General Electric (GE) Healthcare, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The Vscan houses ultra-smart ultrasound technology that provides doctors with an immediate, […]
Give your partners oral sex and swallow their semen to avoid miscarriage-study
Women who regularly give their male partner oral sex may be less likely to suffer recurrent miscarriages, scientists claim. Researchers believe swallowing semen strengthens a pregnant woman’s immune system in a way which makes foetuses more likely to grow healthily. This could be, they say, because it contains hormones and proteins from the man’s body, […]