The Hunger Project, in partnership with the Asuogyaman District Health Directorate, has celebrated World Breastfeeding Week 2024, held annually in August, with the people of Sedorm, a rural community under the Adjena-Dornor Epicenter.
The event aime…
Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III, the Paramount Chief of Akwamu Traditional Area, has urged nurses, doctors, and other health professionals to adhere to universal measures in their daily work.
The chief made the call during the unveiling of a new health cent…
Rotary Club of Kumasi-Premier International has, as part of its humanitarian and charity obligations, conducted free health screening for over 300 Kayayei (head potters) and their children in the Central Business District of Kumasi.
Beneficiaries we…
Mr Frederick Gilbert Addy, Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO), in charge of Finance and Investment at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has paid a working visit to Sefwi-Bodi National Health Insurance Scheme District office as part of…
The Ghana Health Service has recorded 91 maternal deaths in the northern sector of the country in 2023, out of which the Northern Region alone leads by 64 of the women who died during childbirth.
Madam Theodora Asutane, Public Health Nurse at Northe…
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has kick-started processes to establish two additional research centres to advance innovations towards improved health outcomes.
The centres, to be instituted in the Savannah and Western North regions, would focus on s…
The management of HopeXchange Medical Center in Kumasi has applauded the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for contributing immensely to the delivery of quality healthcare in Ghana.
Mr Dominic Osei Kofi, General Manager of t…
Ghana in 2022, spent USD 126,415,269 on HIV-related activities as compared to USD 127,828,300 in 2021, a one per cent decrease in total expenditure in 2022.
Out of the total expenditure, USD 51,650,765 was from the government, USD 20,589,629 from th…
The Ghana NCD Alliance has launched a report: ‘The Financial Burden of Care for People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases in Ghana’ with a call on the government to uncap the 25 per cent National Health Insurance Levy to allow for upward adjustmen…
Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, Director General, Ghana Health Service (GHS), says the Service will continue to provide adequate resources and ensure essential medicines and equipment are available at all levels of health care.
He said there will be increa…