Dr. Yussif Mijirah Dokurugu, a Ghanaian faculty Advisor of Student Associations of Global Health at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), has said that youth who decide to stay in America illegally undergo various grades of stress and fear in life. “You going to the U.S and not coming back...
Vodafone Ghana Foundation’s homecoming initiative, a corporate social responsibility activity of the telecommunication firm, has cleared medical bills for 300 patients who were unable to pay for their services at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). The gesture, which forms part of Vodafone’s activities to mark Ghana’s 61st Independence Day anniversary,...
The Covid-19 test result for the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Marfo has returned positive, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed. He made this known during the media briefing on the country’s Covid-19 situation and matters arising. “In a separate development that has come to us this morning, Senior Minister Osafo-Marfo has...
Ghana’s COVID-19 cases have increased by 125 cases to 1,279 even as the Greater Accra and Ashanti regions mandating the wearing of mask in public. The current data show that the number of death cases has jumped to 10 but recoveries have also seen improvement from 120 to 134. According...
A forum to highlight the importance of menstrual hygiene management among young girls has been held in Accra. At the forum, which was organised by GHOne under the theme “Period Not Shame’, Nana Aba Anamoah, an astute broadcaster with the EIB Network said: “It is absolutely a shame that after...
The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has officially commissioned and handed over the newly constructed Mother and Baby Unit at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), in Kumasi, to the management of the hospital. The construction of the new Mother and Baby Unit, facilitated by the Rebecca Foundation, is expected...
West African countries have launched the Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Project (MRHP) that ensure smooth and standard registration of medicines produced in the sub-region. Speaking at the launch of the project in Accra on Monday, the Deputy Health Minister for Health, Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, stated that, “The intent of all these...
The total confirmed coronavirus cases in Ghana have now reached 4,012 along with 323 recoveries with 18 recorded deaths, as at Friday, May 8, Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced. The latest development still puts the Greater Accra Region with the highest number of confirmed cases, of 3,436, followed by...
… summary of the facts as at April 19 Death rate in Ghana as a percentage of known infections has dropped 1.45 percent from to 0.86 percent. In South Africa it has increased from 1.2 percent to 1.7 percent and globally from 6.2 percent to 6.9 percent. As expected, due to increased...
The Management of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has announced that staff of its Tema Office would immediately undergo COVID-19 testing, as a precautionary measure, after a staff tested positive for COVID-19. According to the Company, while a comprehensive contact tracing process has also begun in order to ensure appropriate...