Health

The Oti Regional Health Directorate has held its 2024 half-year performance review meeting on the theme: ‘Achieving Universal Health Coverage through the Network of Practice Approach.’

In a welcome address, the Regional Director of Health Services, …

Dr. Sussie Anku, Medical Director of Weija-Gbawe Municipal Hospital, on Wednesday stated that hypertension was a leading cause of death and disability in Ghana.

She said the prevalence rate of the disease was about 40 per cent.

Dr Anku

The Aide á la vulnèrabillitè, a health and charity-based group in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, has presented sanitary items to the Gbeogo School for the Deaf in the Talensi District, to improve their hygiene conditions.

The items included 10

More than 600 residents in the Gomoa Afransi and Gomoa Obuasi Areas have benefited from VEE Foundation’s free medical screening exercise to help improve their health status.

Beneficiaries, mostly aged, were diagnosed with diseases such as glaucoma, …

Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe, the Director of Public Health, Ghana Health Service (GHS) says Ghana needed to prioritise the prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) considering their future burden and the existing healthcare system.

He…

An eye screening exercise has been organised for Kadjebi District Assembly staff at Kadjebi in the Oti Region.

It was organised by an eye specialist from the St. Mary Theresa Hospital, Dodi-Papase.

Ms. Matilda Kanda, the Eye Specialist, said