Health
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500 nurses leave Ghana every month – GRNMA discloses
General Secretary of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), David Tenkorang, has disclosed an average of 500 nurses migrate out of Ghana monthly. According to him, these nurses…
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[Nurse-for-cash agreement with UK] Ghana to receive £1,000 per nurse
Ghana is about signing a nurse-for-cash agreement with the government of the United Kingdom. Each nurse Ghana sends to the UK, once the deal is done, is likely to fetch the West African country £1,00…
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Leave Ghana if you get the chance – GRNMA to unemployed nurses
The President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo, has bemoaned the high unemployment rate among trained nurses in the country. Ofori-Ampofo said t…
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COVID hit HIV detection in Europe, threatens eradication progress
The number of people in Europe with undiagnosed HIV has risen as testing rates fell during the COVID-19 pandemic, threatening a global goal of ending the disease by 2030, a report said. The joint Wor…
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GHS Begins Nationwide Deworming Exercise Among 1.9m Basic School Children
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) began a nationwide deworming exercise among basic school children to reduce the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in the country. The exercise, which would …
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Britain says monkeypox shot offers strong 78% protection
A single dose of the monkeypox vaccine provides 78% protection against the virus, according to data from England released on Tuesday that health officials said was the strongest evidence yet of its e…
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Gov’t deliberately depriving NHIA Health providers of funds – Minority
The Minority in Parliament, has bemoaned the delay in the disbursement of funds by the government for the payment of claims by health service providers. According to the group, the current economic c…
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10% of Ghanaians diabetic – NDAG President
About 10 percent of the Ghanaian population is diabetic, President of the National Diabetes Association-Ghana (NDAG), Elizabeth Esi Denyoh, has said. According to her, the prevalence of the disease c…
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Uganda shortens school term by two weeks to curb Ebola
Uganda will shorten the school term by two weeks to reduce daily contact amongst students and help curb the spread of Ebola, the education minister said on Tuesday. Authorities have been struggling t…
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[Photo] Family fume as child’s case worsen over nurses’ negligence
A two-year-old boy is currently battling for his life after sustaining severe injury from a fire incident and was allegedly neglected by health practitioners at Efutu in the Cape Coast North Constitu…