It is the dream of every couple to conceive and have healthy babies after marriage. There are instances where in-laws become impatient and brim with expectations of conception. However, many women of childbearing age do not seek care in the conception process. How do couples take advantage of preconception...
The University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) has, as part of its measures to provide quality health care to its clients, launched an ultramodern call center to attend to the numerous clients that patronize the services of the center. The Contact Centre, which is a unit under the UGMC Client...
The latest digital intervention in the dispensing and sale of pharmaceutical drugs is expected to significantly contribute to addressing concerns over the proliferation of fake drugs on the Ghanaian market, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said. This is due to the platform’s direct link with the Food and Drugs...
After nine seasons of reaching out to various communities and fully paying for the cost of life-saving surgeries for hundreds of Ghanaians, Vodafone Healthline, Vodafone Ghana Limited's flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) health programme cannot be applauded enough. As the popular adage goes,"health is wealth". Thus, without a good state of...
Vodafone Healthline, the flagship corporate social investment project of the telecom giant, has once again played a timeous and critical funding role in the rescue of seven-year-old Charles, who developed a bulging stomach at age two, full of faecal matter, a condition termed Hirschsprung disease. Just imagine a condition where a...
Twitter and Amref Health Africa, a leading Nairobi-based health development organisation, have announced their continued collaboration to provide skills and capacity-building training in best practices for health reporting. This comes on the heels of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and amid growing concerns about recently reported cases of Monkeypox across...
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - which reduced grain shipments from one of the world’s top suppliers - food is becoming more and more expensive globally. According to the Ghana Statistics authorities, food prices in Ghana have risen by at least 30% over the last year. Additionally, energy costs...
AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine as part of its 10-year Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP), has held a mini clinic durbar for the people of Nhyieso and its surrounding communities within the Obuasi municipality. About one thousand residents and traditional leaders were screened and given medication for various ailments. Health workers from the...
Provident Insurance, in partnership with the Breast Cancer Unit at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, on Saturday carried out an education and screening exercise on breast cancer at the hospital. The screening, which took place at the Surgical Unit Park of the hospital, attracted hundreds of people - both women and...
These were the words of a patient who visited a dentist. In fact, here is the quote in full: “I don’t brush twice daily. Is it really that bad? What will happen if I don’t brush my teeth that often? I don’t have bad breath, do I?” For most people,...