Accra: The Western Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has activated its surveillance system and risk communication activities to contain the outbreak of Monkey pox (Mpox) in the region. The move is to monitor and stem the spread of…
Accra: The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed nine cases of Mpox in the country out of 100 suspected cases reported since the outbreak this year, with the first case successfully treated. On May 15, Ghana recorded an Mpox outbreak in the Accra M…
Kumasi: The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has opened its doors to women suffering from obstetric fistula, offering them free surgery to repair damage to their bladder or rectum caused by obstructed labour.
According to Ghana News Agency, the…
Kumasi: The expansion of mental health services in Ghana requires urgent policy reforms and dedicated special initiatives to make care more accessible, equitable, and aligned with international human rights standards. Dr. Yaw Amankwa Arthur, Deputy Di…
Dubai: Naomi Oyoe Ohene Oti, a Ghanaian oncology nurse and educator at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, has won the 2025 Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award. The award, presented in Dubai, comes with a $250,000 cash prize.
According to Ghana News Agency…
Kumasi: A Senior Research Scientist has suggested that Ghana could make progress in preventing and managing floods by combining both engineering infrastructure and nature-based solutions. Dr. Shalom D. Addo-Danso of the Forestry Research Institute of …
Dr Prince Hamid Armah, the Deputy Minister of Works and Housing, has launched a road map to promote the use of low-carbon construction materials and decarbonize the building and construction sector by 2050.
The step has become necessary due to the hi…
The Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Directorate has raised a health alert after confirming two cholera cases within the municipality and awaiting the results of other suspected cases.
Dr Esther Priscilla Biamah Danquah,?the Kpone-Katamanso Municipa…
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says it has settled outstanding debt owed to health services providers on the Scheme.
Dr. Da-costa Aboagye, Chief Executive Officer, NHIA, said the claims had been settled up to August 2024; with some a…
Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), says the next NDC government will bear the cost of screening for breast cancer to ensure early detection and treatment.
She said that wou…