Health

Dr. Etienne Krug, Director of the World Health Organization’s Department for Social Determinants of Health, says Ghana should invest more on preventing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) rather than focusing solely on cures.

He stated that, while curati…

The Dental Department of the Tema General Hospital, in collaboration with the Public Health Unit, has held a free dental screening and sensitisation exercise for the public in commemoration of World Oral Health Day.

The programme was to raise awarene…

Ms Abena Adubea Amoah, the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), has asked the Government to prioritise the provision of Family Planning (FP) commodities.

She said statistics from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) indicat…

The Ghana National Association of Community Mental Health Officers has called on the Mental Health Authority (MHA) to inaugurate all 261 District Mental Health Sub-committees, to foster mental health care.

Mr David Naboare, the National President of …

Mr Maxwell Mahama, the Jaman South Municipal Manager, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has advised active members of the Scheme to report service providers who demand unauthorised fees or charges from them.

He said the Scheme did not owe any

Action Group for Development, a Kadjebi -based non-profit development group has handed over a refurbished three-bedroom self-contained apartment for the Physician Assistant to the District Directorate of the Ghana Health Service.

The renovation cost …

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID and Total Family Health Organisation (TFHO), a Ghanaian social marketing organisation, have launched two new healthcare products to support adolescents, women, and children in Ghana.

The p…

Hope for Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with a focus on providing prospect and opportunity to the children of Ghana has commissioned an ultra-modern school building for Klokpe MA Basic School in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta…