1st Stakeholder Meeting On Strengthening Hiv Programming OrganisedMonday, June 17, 2013 The West Africa Aids Foundation , a Civil Society Organization in the fight to combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Ghana, has organized a stakeholders meeting on how to effectively cripple the menace.The Stakeholders Meeting, the first of its kind held at the Teachers Hall in Accra and spon ... |
Challenges To Newborncare In GhanaMonday, June 17, 2013 Its another day in the Mother Baby Unit, MBU which is the newborn care unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital KATH where babies below 2 months are admitted when they fall ill.A young mother had just rushed in her 5 day old baby boy. I say rushed but the reality was that it took abou ... |
2 Die From Rabies In Brong Ahafo RegionFriday, June 14, 2013 TWO PEOPLE died from rabies outbreak in the Asunafo North and Asunafo South Districts in the Brong Ahafo Region between February and April this year. Dr Kenneth Gbeddy, Brong Ahafo Regional Director of Veterinary Service in an interview with the Ghana News Agency GNA in Sunyani on Wednesday sa ... |
Lousika Endorses Maternal Health Channel And Urges Women 'To Be Smart And Get Protected'Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Nearly 25 of maternal deaths in Ghana are caused by backstreet abortions even though abortions are legal under specified conditions like rape, incest or psychological distress. Ghana therefore remains off-target for achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals with over 4,000 women dyi ... |
Women Living With HIV Pleads With Pharmacists To Go Back To WorkTuesday, June 11, 2013 Women Living with HIV in the Brong-Ahafo Region have made a passionate appeal to the members of the Ghana Hospital Pharmacists Association to temper justice with mercy and go back to work to enable them have access to their life saving wire - anti-retroviral therapy ART.According to her, the s ... |
Review NHIS Capitation System – Frimpong BoatengTuesday, June 11, 2013 Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, a renowned Heart Surgeon, has called for a review of the Capitation System being piloted in the Ashanti Region by the National Health Insurance Authority NHIA, to make it more beneficial to both service providers and the citizenry. He said right from the ini ... |
Unmet Family Planning Needs: Bad For Economy And HealthTuesday, June 11, 2013 222 million women in developing countries, who want to use modern contraception methods, are not able to have access to them. Meeting womens family planning needs would prevent 54 million unplanned pregnancies, 79,000 maternal deaths and 1.1 million infant deaths. There are other savings too, for e ... |
Health Insurance Is For AllMonday, June 10, 2013 A health insurance expert Princess Osisiadan-Quaye has observed that health insurance is not a luxury but rather a necessity for every individual to sign and receive quality health care in his or her life time. She gave the reason that, medical emergencies are becoming very expensi ... |
Project Abroad Supports 400 KidsFriday, June 07, 2013 ABOUT 440 vulnerable children from four deprived communities in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region have benefited from free registration of the National Health Insurance Scheme NHIS. The beneficiary communities are Kwakokrom, Atobrakrom, Nsiana-Kaniago and Abodom-Domi. Project ... |
Public Smoking BannedFriday, June 07, 2013 The Food and Drugs Authority FDA has brought to the notice of the general public, the ban on smoking in public places. Offenders of the law are to face possible prosecution and subsequently imprisonment, according to the FDA. This notice is to make sure that non-smokers are safe from the ... |
Ghana's Food & Drugs Authority Chasing Public SmokersFriday, June 07, 2013 The Food and Drugs Authority FDA, has given indications that it would arrest and prosecute persons who smoke publicly, as well as managers of the public places, who refuse to prevent the practice of public smoking at their facilities, in its effort to prevent tobacco-related illnesses, including c ... |
Chocho Appeals To PharmacistsThursday, June 06, 2013 The Managing Director of Chocho Industries, manufacturers of herbal medicine at Suhum in the Eastern Region, Alhaji Mustapha Boateng has appealed to striking government and hospital pharmacists to reconsider their strike action and go back to work. He said it was important and complementary for ... |
146 Pharmacists InductedThursday, June 06, 2013 The Pharmaceutical Council of Ghana PCG has called on the Minister of Health, Sherry Ayittey, to place more emphasis on the health regulatory bodies in the sector, especially the Pharmacy Council. The council noted that the ministry should begin to invest a little more than the current 1.3 per ... |
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