The COVAX Global Supply Forecast has announced that Ghana will receive a total of 2,412,000 doses of the COVID 19 vaccines by the first and second quarters of this year.
Ghana will get the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, licensed to Serum Institute of India (SII) – also known as the “AZ/SII” type...
Vodafone Healthline has offered timely medical intervention to a first-year student of JE Atta Mills SHS, Ekumfi in the Central Region, Cecelia Aidoo, after severely fracturing her right arm to a motorcycle accident.
According to Cecilia, she was on her way to church on that fateful day when an unknown...
...as GCB, UG Medical Centre, others benefit
The Phase one of community disinfection campaign by Waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) has come to a climax with several public institutions benefiting.
The nationwide exercise which forms part of Zoomlion’s corporate social responsibility dubbed: “ Free Community Disinfection Campaign” is to...
Ghana has recorded eight new COVID 19 deaths pushing the country’s fatality rate of the disease to 424 as of February 2, 2021.
The country also recorded 772 new COVID-19 cases. The active case count has now reached 5,515. The figures were released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) today...
The headquarters of Ghana Prisons Service at Osu in the La Dadetokopon Municipality of the Greater Accra Region has benefitted from Zoomlion’s Free Community Disinfection that was launched recently.
The was carried out on Thursday, January 28, 2021 and was to help deal with any COVID-19 tendencies at the state...
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...
A number of healthcare professionals in the country say the sector’s fragile state may not withstand the crushing force of the pandemic, citing inadequate facilities, lack of research, among others as reasons.
Findings based on interviews some doctors granted this Paper indicate that the increasing number of coronavirus cases is...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization Foreword from WHO Global Report on Traditional and Complementary Medicine 2019 has this to say:
“Traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) is an important and often underestimated health resource with many applications, especially in the prevention and management of lifestyle related chronic diseases, and...
On the latest episode of Vodafone Healthline series, health professionals have debunked the assertion that sleeping under a fan causes pneumonia indicating that there are no such viruses or bacteria transfer associated with just sleeping under a fan.
Senior Physician Specialist, Dr. Aba Folson, emphasized that though sleeping under a...
Vodafone Healthline, the flagship health initiative of Vodafone Ghana has come to the aid of a three-year-old girl, Christabel Afua Assifuah, a resident of Takoradi in the Western Region who swallowed a calculator battery.
According to her parents, she was rushed to a health center on the evening the incident...
