Health
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QR codes on Covid vaccination cards still invalid – Okoe-Boye
Ghana’s QR code on the COVID-19 cards issued to vaccinated Ghanaians is reportedly invalid. The COVID-19 cards are intended to give Ghanaian travellers the ability to travel without undergoing a COVI…
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Strain of deadly Covid Delta could be found in Ghana communities – GHS
The deadly Delta variant of coronavirus recorded in Ghana may have entered the community, Dr Franklyn Asiedu-Bekoe, Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has revealed. This is c…
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Ghana’s pharmaceutical industry urged to tackle fake medicine menace
Dr Maxwell Antwi, Country Director of PharmAccess, has charged stakeholders with the pharmaceutical industry to address the fake medicine menace in Ghana because a quarter of the total medicines sold…
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PMAG debunks claim that 30% of medicine in Ghana are fake or substandard
The Executive Secretary for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Ghana (PMAG) Lucia Addae Nti has dismissed claims that medicines are substandard. Her reaction follows PharmaAccess Ghana’s…
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Kintampo is the depot of fake and substandard medicines – Dr Antwi
Dr Maxwell Antwi, Country Director, PharmAccess Ghana, has disclosed a recent study in Kintampo, a town in the Bono East Region of Ghana, revealed that four out of ten medicines sold in Kintampo were…
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WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Guinea over
The Ebola outbreak that emerged in Guinea in mid-February was declared over today. It was the first time the disease resurfaced in the country since the deadly outbreak in West Africa that ended in 2…
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Four Ghanaian drug-making pharmacies ready to produce covid vaccines
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana says at least four Ghanaian pharmaceutical manufacturers are ready to provide the country with COVID-19 vaccines. This follows government’s announcement that the c…
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Bono Regional Hospital suffers blood shortage
The Bono Regional Government Hospital is facing blood shortage at its blood bank and the situation has been attributed to the Covid 19 pandemic. The authorities said the situation is making procedure…
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Integrating recovered mentally challenged into the society
About two-third of patients in the Accra Psychiatric Hospital who are fully recovered are still stuck at the hospital because their families and relatives have refused to reconnect with back. The hea…
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Over 2,000 people out of 30,000 test positive for HIV in Ghana
The USAID Strengthening the Care Continuum Project in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has, between October 2020 and March 2021 tested almost 30,000 people for Human Immune Virus (HI…