Ghana Health Service’s National Coordinator for Community Engagement and Health Promotion, Joel Abekuliya, has emphasized the crucial role of responsible journalism in reporting health emergencies and risk communication. “Today, we’re gathered to reiterate the importance of responsible journalism, especially in the face of rapidly spreading diseases,” Abekuliya began. “As one of the pillars of risk […]
Ghana has not recorded any case of Ebola, the Ghana Health Service said on Wednesday, 22 June 2022. Some media reports had claimed a case had been recorded in Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region. However, the Director-General of the health service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, told journalists at a briefing on Wednesday: “I want to […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said, Ghana as a country has committed twenty-five million dollars ($25 million) to develop our domestic vaccine production capability. “We have committed twenty-five million dollars ($25 million) to develop our domestic vaccine production capability, and facilitate the capacity of domestic pharmaceutical companies to fill, finish and package mRNA COVID-19, […]
President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced opening Ghana’s land and sea borders from Monday, 28 March 2022. He has also scrapped PCR tests for fully-vaccinated Ghanaians travelling back into Ghana. “As from tomorrow, Monday, 28th March, all land and sea borders will be opened. Fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed entry through the land and sea […]
According to the 2020 Auditor Service reports, as at 31 August 2020, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) owed 46 BMCs a total amount of GH¢20,999,551.10 for services rendered between June 2019 and August 2020 Per regulation 38 of the National Health Insurance Regulations requires that a claim or payment of health service submitted to […]
Social and political non-partisan pressure group, OccupyGhana says the underfire Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu has no right to sidestepped Parliament in whatever situation pertaining to dealings on behalf of the country. The pressure group noted that the emergency circumstances do not justify bypassing constitutional and statutory processes in the procurement of the Sputnik V […]
The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has threatened to file an official petition at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) if criminal investigations are not initiated to prosecute Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu. This comes after a report of the ad-hoc committee of Parliament set up to […]
According to data from the Ghana Health Service District Health Information Management System as of April 30, 2021, it shows that the Upper East Region recorded 1632 teenage pregnancies in the first quarter of this year representing a 14.5 percent increase over figures recorded in 2020 which recorded a total of 6533 for the whole […]
Ken Ofori Ghana Finance Minister-Atta has said he appreciated the need for investment in the country’s health infrastructure during his five weeks in the US hospital. The finance minister made confession when addressing the Festschrift in honour of Rev. Prof. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, President of the Trinity Theological Seminary in Accra. “In my five weeks […]
It appears the cost of treatment is a contributing factor bedeviling most affected mental ill-health families in the northern sector, this was according to Billy, the Upper East mentally ill celebrity. Billy a young man who turned 40 years in March 2021, is mostly seen in the principal street of Bolgatanga the Upper East Regional […]
