Vodafone Healthline, the flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme of telecom giant Vodafone that seeks to educate Ghanaians on pertinent health-related issues and encourage healthy lifestyle practices, has educated lactating/breastfeeding mothers on staying safe amid COVID19.
In its ninth season, the programme, this season, boasts of health professionals such as...
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...
The Ministry of Health has in collaboration with Zoompak Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), taken steps to properly dispose of medical waste from the ongoing Coronavirus vaccination Programme in the Ashanti Region.
Speaking to journalists at the Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi in the Ashanti...
The Women Intelligentsia for Service and Excellence (WISE) Network has donated an assortment of items to the Beulah CHPS Compound at Dzen Ayor, a suburb of the Ogbojo Electoral Area-Madina, Accra.
The donated items comprised Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as disposable hand towels, sanitiser, thermometer guns; gallons of handwashing...
Though the global pandemic caused many disruptions to all sectors, including the healthcare system, there is a positive development in the pharmaceutical industry as telepharmacy, which previously was not patronised much, has seen a soaring of demand with patients preferring the service to going to a hospital.
Telepharmacy is a...
…encourages regular medical check-ups to prevent late detection
Physician Specialist at the Department of Medicine-Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Mensah Amoah, has disclosed that among the causes of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) in the country are diabetes and high blood pressure.
According to him, diabetes constitutes about 40 percent of the causes...
GCB Bank Ltd. has donated an amount of GH¢100,000 to the COVID-19 National Trust Fund to help support sensitisation work and reduction in the spread of COVID-19.
The bank’s donation forms part of its corporate social responsibility of supporting and partnering state institutions to achieve the national development agenda.
The Deputy...
The Deputy Majority Caucus leader in Parliament and Member of Parliament for the Effutu Constituency, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, has said the provision of quality health care is the primary source of wooing investment into a community.
He reiterated that investors consider the healthy nature of communities as the primary reason...
Bliss GVS Pharma Ghana has extended its donation of antimalarial drugs to the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
The gesture, worth GH¢30,000, forms part of activities geared toward the celebration of this year’s World Malaria Day, which will be marked on Monday, April 25 and is to help in the fight against...
Pepsodent Ghana’s Dental TV show, ‘Time with the Dentist’, is back with yet another interesting and educative season to provide free dental consultation to Ghanaians.
Time with the Dentist is a dental TV show by Pepsodent, in partnership with the Ghana Dental Association which seeks to educate Ghanaians on basic...