By Adu Koranteng As part of efforts to prevent the most common causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in the Brong Ahafo Area, Midwives and Nurses from five health directorates in Asutifi North and South, Tano North and Sunyani Municipality have been taken through a weeklong Master Class to update them on new research in Helping Babies and Mothers survive …

The National Chief Imam, His Eminence Dr. Sheikh Usman Nuhu Sharubutu has lauded the proposal to seek additional funding for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) as “many Ghanaians largely depend on the NHIS for their health care, and therefore its sustenance is key in promoting national development.” The revered Imam made these pronouncements when management of the NHIA, led …

By Anna Claudia Duker The Food and Drugs Authourity (FDA) has cautioned the public especially pregnant women and lactating mothers to desist from the use of glutathione to lighten the skin of their unborn babies, due to  the serious health problems it poses. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of  FDA, Mrs. Delese Darko stated the Authority’s intelligence and market surveillance …

The contractor whose company constructed the structure meant to house the proposed 150 bed Ofankor District Hospital has affirmed that he put up the structures, without the medical equipment, at a cost of Ghs5.7m, equivalent to $1.3m. Barima Dr Ofori Ameyaw, who is also a former President of the Ghana Union Traders Association (GUTA), has also confirmed that funding for …

A former Medical Superintendent of the Essikado District Hospital, in the Western Region, Dr N. K. Ametewee was last week Thursday, jailed 10 years by the Sekondi High Court for defrauding the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIS) to the tune of four hundred and fifteen thousand Ghana cedis (GHC415, 000). He was convicted and sentenced together with his accomplice and …

By Alex Boye A group of 17 student doctors from the Ndiana University in the Unites States of America has described Ghana’s leading herbal clinic, Champion Divine Clinic, as the best in the world when it comes to treating diseases with herbal medicine. The student doctors, who have heard about the splendid work of the Champion Divine Clinic made these …

…As Ghana Opens First Natural Medicine University By Alex Boye The first Natural Medicine University is expected to be opened in Ghana in the next few weeks to deal with the studies of natural medicine. The reason behind the establishment of the university, according to authorities, is to help boost the use of natural and alternative medicine. It also aims …

  By Deo-Donne Dafeamekpor Campus for Christ (C4C) has partnered East Coast Community Healthcare (ECCH) in order to train personnel with the appropriate qualification to fit into all sectors of the homeopathic healthcare delivery to patients. C4C, which is in its fourth year of operation is the largest facility in Ghana and has 10 major branches all over the regional …

The much awaited maiden clean- up by the Ministry of Inner-City and Zongo Development (MICZD) will come off this week end as planned at Nima in the Awayaso East municipality of the Greater Accra Region. The exercise is line with the President’s pledge of keeping Ghana clean, and making Accra in particular the cleanest city in Africa. In view of …

    By Frank Amponsah   The neglect by the Accra Sewerage Improvement Project (ASIP) to maintain, after authorities oversaw the construction of the sewage has left  residents of Dansoman in the Greater Accra Region scared, that with their current situation any outbreak of any excreta-related disease could  have disastrous effect on them. For the past eight days, as a …