Sandema (U/E),– Management of the Sandema Hospital in the Builsa North Municipality of the Upper East Region has honoured Mr Joseph Kurubil, a retired Deputy Director of Nursing Services (DDNS) of the Hospital. The retired DDNS was honoured for his dedication and immerse contributions to health service delivery in the Upper East Region while in active service. In a citation […]

Takuka (NE/R)- Global Communities, under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Health (W4H) project, has facilitated for two communities to attain Open Defecation Free (ODF) Sanitised level ensuring improved sanitation practices. The communities are Takuka and Zangum-Bouduri located in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region. On July 13, this […]

Sandema (U/E), – Dr Bertrand Agilinko, the Acting Medical Superintendent of the Sandema Hospital in the Builsa North Municipality of the Upper East Region has called on health professionals in the facility not to deny patients without face masks health care services. “You cannot refuse health care to patients because they are not wearing masks, if anything goes wrong, you […]

Adaklu Tsriefe (V/R), Aug 1, GNA – Out of 13,237 people who were tested for suspected malaria cases in the Adaklu district between January and June, this year, 5,522 tested positive. During the same period in 2020, 8,721 people were tested and 3,490 tested positive. Mr. Robert Bedie, Adaklu District Malaria Focal Person disclosed this at a one-day Malaria Community […]

Accra, – Ghana is to receive over 1.4 doses of COVID vaccines as part of her vaccination campaign to protect the public, especially the most at risk of contracting the virus. The country is expecting a total of 1.2 million Pfizer vaccines from the United States of America, through the COVAX facility, and some 249,600 AstraZeneca vaccines from the United […]