Global Health and Safety Environment contest and awards launched
Accra, The Global Health and Safety Environment Contest and Awards have been launched to commemorate World Safety Day and Health at Work in Accra.The contest is aimed at advocating global standards for safety through participation and social dialogue t…
Malnutrition fears as Covid delivers blow to Indian school lunches
The Covid pandemic has struck a heavy blow to India’s school feeding programme and may have reversed years of progress in the fight against child malnutrition.Now back in their classrooms in the wake of the pandemic, students of government schools acro…
Let’s invest in mental health-Researcher
Kintampo (BE/R), Mr Kenneth A. AE-Ngibise, a Research Fellow, Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC), has called on government to pay significant attention to mental health, invest in it and incorporate it into primary healthcare.He said research condu…
Communities urged to safeguard the health of students
Tamale, Communities, especially those around Senior High Schools (SHS) have been urged to be keen on safeguarding the health of the students by keeping their surroundings clean.Mr Suleman Yakubu, Northern Regional Director of the Environmental Health a…
GHS to organise door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination in WR
Takoradi, The Ghana Health Service, under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme, is to move into communities in the Western Region to vaccinate an estimated 149,000 persons against COVID-19.The five-day exercise, dubbed, “Better Late Than Never…
COVID-19: 400,000 people to be vaccinated in Ashanti Region
Kumasi, The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has begun another round of COVID-19 vaccination exercise in all the 43 districts in the Region.The five-days exercise, which began on April 21, is seeking to vaccinate 400,000 people who have never been v…
GHS launches second special COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Somanya, The Ghana Health Service has launched a second special COVID-19 vaccination campaign to whip up the public interest in taking the vaccines.The campaign, which started on April 21 will end on Monday April 25 using strategic approaches including…
Guinea’s ousted ex-president returns after treatment abroad
Guinea’s ousted ex-president Alpha Conde returned to the country Friday after a trip to the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment, the ruling junta said.Conde “returned to Conakry this afternoon after medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates,…