“If I could bear the pain of my daughter, I’ll gladly do that,” that is a heart-wrenching cry from a mother as she watches her daughter endure pain.
Georgina Serwa’s 18-year-old daughter, Jennifer Ohemaa Koranteng, is bedridden. What started as pain in Jennifer’s leg has confined her to the bed...
The low-wage workers who make up nearly half of the US workforce have long been neglected, steadily falling behind highly educated workers in expanding industries such as technology, finance, and entertainment. Since the 1970s, real (inflation-adjusted) wages have stagnated for prime-age men with less than a college education, and...
GOIL has supported a blood donation exercise organised by the National Blood Service in collaboration with Nifa Senior High School, Adukrom in the Eastern Region.
About 150 students donated blood in support of the exercise, with a total of 182 pints of blood realised at the end of the programme.
As...
Senior health practitioners cum in-house experts of Vodafone Healthline, Doctors Aba Folson and Kwekuma Yalley, cleared up the myth that a woman cannot get pregnant during her period. The doctors educated the public that a woman can conceive (get pregnant) at anytime during her menstrual cycle, even during or...
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a new grant of US$12million to the Africa Public Health Foundation, to help expand the geographic coverage of testing and to strengthen contact tracing for COVID-19 in Africa through the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
“Equitable access to testing and tracing...
Pharmaceutical manufacturer, Intravenous Infusions PLC, has donated 100 cartons of normal saline (IV fluids) to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana.
The fluids, according to Intravenous, would help the Institute and the nine other testing centres across the country to assist in dilution and testing...
A recycling plant in Tanzania’s port city of Dar es Salaam has traded paper for plastic bottles and started making anti-coronavirus face shields that are being snatched up by hospitals and health centres nationwide.
Until earlier this year, Zaidi Recyclers had a thriving business in processing waste paper which it...
Beginning third quarter of the year, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) will be rolling out a technology that will enable consumers to determine fake and unregistered drugs on the market, the CEO of FDA, Delese Darko, has announced.
“Already, the FDA uses a device called the ‘true scan’;...
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and the Legon Interdenominational Church (LIC) have jointly organised a health screening and blood donation exercise at the University of Ghana.
The event, which took place on February 18-19, 2023, was aimed at supporting the National Blood Service to provide blood to women who need...
As part of efforts to stem imminent outbreaks and spread of the novel coronavirus, the Techiman Municipal Assembly in the Bono East Region has resolved to create eleven temporary satellite market centres to ease congestion at the city’s main trading centre.
The creation of satellite market centres will be preceded...