Health

A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT Dear Mr President, My hands feel shaken as I write but I hope you will be able to read my hand writing. My hands are shaky because I haven’t fed for the past nine months. My hands are shaky because I’ve labored in the health …

Saboba, Ghana – Cornerstone Medical Outreach, a charity organisation led by 2019 Mandela Washington Fellow, has provided free medical screening and treatment to over five thousand residents of Yankasia, a deprived community in the Saboba District in the Northern Region of Ghana. Dr. Jessica Samira Bogobiri on December 7, 2019 …

Tamale, Ghana – Margaret Afriyie, a Ghanaian midwife in the Ahafo Ano South East District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana, has been widely commended for her love and compassion towards the poor and needy especially pregnant mothers in rural areas. Through Ms Afriyie’s unusual act of kindness towards her …

Tamale, Ghana – Founder and Presidential candidate of the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) has stated that, all Ghanaian farmers under his government would enjoy free healthcare services for their contributions. In a statement to congratulate all gallant farmers on the occasion of the 35th National Farmers Day celebration today, …

At a time when Ghana is almost winning the battle against Tramadol abuse nationwide, there seem to be another equally dangerous and silent killer taking over our streets especially among teenagers. Snuff; a product made from tobacco is the newest gig in town. Although a national issue, this writeup takes …

Tamale, Ghana – A newly qualified Ghanaian nurse, Tahidu Sukuratu, has reiterated the general concerns and plight of rotation nurses and midwives in the country who have been working without pay for eight months. She said though they were sacrificing to care for the sick at their various places of …

Tamale, Ghana – Ahead of the Annual General Meeting of the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region, the Northern Regional Chairman of the Coalition is urging leadership and all members who are attending the event to grant autonomy to newly created regions across …

Tamale, Ghana – Zeinab Kadir, a Ghanaian midwife working in the Upper East Region of Ghana, has through a social media post given horrid accounts of challenges facing pregnant women in rural areas. According to her, despite government making medical care for pregnant women free of charge, same could not …

Ghana’s medical emergency care need a lot of input to meet WHO standards. There is serious lack of the needed skill-mix of personnel, consumable, medications at the in-hospital level, while at the pre-hospital level there is lack of knowledge and skill by the public on Basic Life Support (BLS), inadequate …

Accra, Ghana – Fifty (50) Sierra Leonean nurses and midwives who arrived in Ghana in 2018 to undergo a 2-year training and education in Registered Nursing and Registered Midwifery programmes have successfully completed and sat for the online licensing examination conducted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The examination took …