Health
FDA partners with Ghana Police Service to crack down on tobacco smoke activities
In move to combat the scourge of tobacco smoke, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has joined forces with the Ghana Police Service to launch a crackdown on illegal tobacco smoke activities in Eastern Region.
This collaborative effort is a
Study your menstrual cycle to avoid embarrassment – Midwifery Officer
Madam Mary Azika, a Senior Midwifery Officer (SMO) at the Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound at Daporitindongo, in the Bolgatanga Municipality, has admonished young girls to study their menstrual cycle to avoid soiling themse…
FHUC donates sanitary pads to students to mark world menstrual hygiene day
As part of activities to mark the world Menstrual Hygiene Day 2024, the Family Health University College, comprising the Family Health Hospital, Medical School, and Nursing and Midwifery Schools, donated over 1,500 packets of sanitary pads to studen…
Ketu South Hospital marks neonatal jaundice awareness with durbar, health screening
The Ketu South Municipal Hospital (KSMH), Aflao has organised a community durbar and medical outreach to climax neonatal jaundice awareness month.
The event was meant to promote effective awareness on jaundice in newborns, stakeholder engagement and …
You’ll be free from co-payment from June – NHIS assures Ketu South residents
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Ketu South office has assured residents that effective June 1, 2024, illegal payments (co-payments) at credentialed health facilities will stop.
Co-payment is the illegal practice of credentialed healthcar…
World No Tobacco Day: Don’t equate tobacco use with masculinity, FDA warns
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned the youth to disregard the widely held misconception linking smoking tobacco to masculinity.
Madam Francisca Obeng, the Central Regional Head of the Authority, said: ‘Do not be misled into thinking tha…
Mama Hodzige donates sanitary pads to 150 adolescent girls
Mama Hodzige II, Queenmother of Klikor-Agblorgame, has donated sanitary pads to 150 adolescent girls at Klikor Unity Basic School in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region.
She said the donation, which formed part of her ‘Menstrual Hygiene P…
Arla Foods commits to promoting nutrition, general wellbeing of children
Arla Foods, producers of Dano Milk, have expressed commitment to contributing and promoting the nutritional and general wellbeing of children with the provision of its highly nutritious dairy milk.
Mr Wilson Agbeko, the Head of Marketing, Arla Foods,…