The world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, Zipline, has began the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to selected health facilities within its service area in Ghana. This makes Ghana the first country in the world to deploy drones on a national scale to deliver COVID-19 vaccines.
On 23 February,...
The World Health Organisation prequalified and Ghana Food and Drugs Authority registered Antimalarial Pyramax (Artesunate-Pyronaridine), a fixed-dose combination medication for the treatment of malaria, has been approved for clinical trials for COVID-19 in South Korea.
Also, it is being tried in South Africa, Kenya and Burkina Faso to pick African...
On the latest episode of Vodafone Healthline series, health professionals have debunked the assertion that sweating while working out is fat-burning.
General Practitioner Dr. Kwekuma Yalley explained that humans sweat when there is a way for the body to regulate temperature; thus when the body temperature goes up, the body...
Ghana has received 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India.
The vaccines arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in the morning of Wednesday, February 24, 2021.
Government officials, health workers and some diplomats were at the airport to receive the vaccines.
Vaccination is expected to start...
The Ministry of Education (MoE), Ghana Education Service (GES) and teacher unions have come to an agreement for teachers to be provided with laptops for assessment work, with teachers paying 30 percent of the cost; but some concerned teachers are calling for the mother association, the Ghana National Association...
The Savelugu Municipal hospitality has been partially shut down due to an upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the area. The two-week partial closure commenced on Monday February 22, 2021.
The decision was taken after 64 staff and patients tested positive for COVID-19. The management of the hospital in a memo...
Members of Parliament have expressed displeasure about reports of baby-harvesting in some health facilities of the country - whereby babies are stolen from their mothers after delivery and sold to people - saying this development will discourage the fight against maternal mortality and poor child health.
Commenting on the matter,...
… prepares to deploy 350,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines from March
Government, through the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has indicated that it will along with the preaching of adherence to the protocols - face masking, physical distancing, hand washing/sanitizing - leverage the upcoming vaccination programme in a manner that will...
Our cases are skyrocketing as well as the death rates. The question: What do we lose as a nation if we try our herbal medicines in this public health emergency? Interestingly, the father of modern medicine we celebrate today respect the profession of naturopathic medicine. Not only was Hippocrates...
PZ Cussons Ghana, Ghana’s leading producers of personal and homecare goods, have donated GHC 250,000 to the Childhood Cancer Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
The donation culminates the first phase of the Camel “Because We Care” Campaign which was launched in November 2020 as a Corporate Social Responsibility...
