Operators of Fly Zipline Ghana have revealed that the company will by the second quarter of the year begin operations of using drone technology to deliver blood and other essential medicines to health facilities within the country. Parliament in 2018 gave approval for the company to operate in the country in a bid to improve the health care delivery system …

By Seth Opoku Agyemang -Sunyani The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation has presented two incubators worth $20,000 to the Paediatric Unit of Brong Ahafo regional hospital in Sunyani, to help cater for premature and neonatal babies at the hospital. The Sunyani donation adds up to a total of nineteen (19) incubators so far that has been donated and installed by the Kokrokoo Charities …

GUBA Foundation, a subsidiary of GUBA Enterprise in its bid to reduce infant mortality rate in Ghana, has donated a new incubator to the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit of the Ga West Municipal Hospital located in Amasaman, Accra. The donation which took place on Friday the 31st of August 2018, follows the success of one of the GUBA Foundation’s campaigns …

Residents of Saltpond in the Mfantsiman District of the Central Region are the latest beneficiaries of the nationwide free health screening programs offered by the Loyal Ladies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The medical team led by Ms. Rebecca Kumah with support from staff of the Saltpond Government Hospital over the weekend treated over two thousand patients with various medical …

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 …