Health

Tamale, Ghana – Some female students of the Tamale School of Hygiene have expressed disappointment in the leadership of the school for their unwillingness to take a decisive action on the sexual harassment scandal involving a tutor by name Solomon Ossom Asare alias King Solomon. According to the aggrieved students, …

Tamale, Ghana – It does not seem that the woes of Solomon Ossom Asare alias King Solomon, a tutor at the Tamale School of Hygiene will be over anytime soon. Although authorities of the school are yet to take a disciplinary action against him for admitting to pestering a first …

Tamale, Ghana – It’s nearly two weeks since a tutor of the Tamale School of Hygiene by name Solomon Ossom Asare alias King Solomon assaulted a female first year student who turned down a romantic proposal from him. The tutor is alleged to be forcing female students to enter into …

Tamale, Ghana – There appears to be a growing moral breakdown on the campus of the Tamale School of Hygiene, as one tutor by name Solomon Ossom Asare alias King Solomon, is reportedly bent on ruining  the future of female students through romantic affairs rather than moulding them. The tutor …

Wa, Ghana – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has downgraded nine of 10 health facilities in the Nadowli/Kaleo district of the Upper West Region to CHPS compounds due to the lack of physician assistants in those centres.The health centres cannot offer certain critical care including the prescription of antibiotics …

Tamale, Ghana – About Three Senior High Schools in the Northern Region have been hit with severe water crisis. Ghana Senior High School, Vittin Senior High School and Dabokpa Technical School students are forced to share the only source of water which is a dam with animals. The three schools …

Wa, Ghana – A sizeable chunk of the hordes of child-patients who troop to the 200-bed capacity Wa Regional Hospital in the Upper West Region for medical attention end up being treated on the bare floor due to lack of adequate beds, Wa-based Home Radio 99.7FM has reported.According to Mr …

Tamale, Ghana – One of Ghana’s leading corporate social responsibility investors, MTN Ghana – has mobilized 669 people to donate blood for the Tamale Teaching Hospital and other key health facilities in the Tamale Metropolis and Sagnarigu Municipality. Mainly students from the University for Development Studies (UDS), Tamale Technical University …

Wa, Ghana – The Wa Municipal Coordinator for Mental Health in the Upper West Region, Sylvester Basagnia, has dispelled misconceptions that the condition is contagious. He appealed to Ghanaians to support people with the condition when they have a seizure noting that they are not at risk of becoming epileptic when …

Wa, Ghana – An inmate at the Wa Central Prisons (name withheld) has called on the people of the Upper West Region to support the infirmary at the Wa Central Prisons with drugs. He said inmates with various health conditions in the prisons may be faced with a situation of relapse …