Health

Bole, Ghana – The Bole District Director of Ghana Health Service Mr David Bakuri has said that contrary to speculations in Bole that Typhoid is on the rise in the township, statistics they have indicate situation is not so bad. Speaking to Bole based Nkilgi Fm, Mr David Bakuri said …

Wa, Ghana – The 160-bed new Upper West Regional Hospital is 99 per cent complete but will not be opened until it is fully completed and staffed with trained personnel.The resident engineer at the Hospital, Ahmed Abo Shamaa, who led an inspection team to the facility, told reporters that the …

Wa, Ghana – The Australian Ambassador, H.E. Andrew Barnes, has paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Amidu Issahaku Chinnia, as part of his working visit to the region. The Deputy Minister commended the Australian government for the support being given to WaterAid to address challenges …

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 …