Health

Kpembe, Ghana – The Kpembe Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the East Gonja Municipality on Saturday March 24, 2017 held its second graduation ceremony for a total of 1,484 students. The graduates included students who completed in 2012 with about 108 graduating with distinction from four programs comprising Nursing …

Salaga, Ghana – The Ghanaian Association of Madison (GHAMA) in the United States of America has donated six boxes of assorted medical consumables and surgical items to the Salaga Government Hospital through the Health and Sanitation Committee of the East Gonja District Assembly. Presenting the items on behalf of GHAMA …

Tamale, Ghana – A Senior Officer in charge of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Northern Regional Office of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Mohammed Abdul-Salam, has appealed to disability groups to mobilise their members who have no NHIS membership card for registration. According to him, persons with mental illness …

Tamale, Ghana – Contrary to media reports and public misconception that most private hospitals in Ghana are engaged in all kinds of illegality to rake in revenue under the cover of the NHIS, the Northern Regional Director of the NHIA, Alhaji Hudu Iddrisu, has rather placed the blame squarely on …

Tamale, Ghana – A total of six hundred and three (603) people generously responded to MTN Ghana’s call for blood donation in Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana on Saint Valentine’s Day. This huge response may not be surprising at all to many people because of the wow effect …

Bolgatanga, Ghana – The Second Lady, Samira Bawumia, has embarked on a nationwide campaign to promote personal hygiene among students of senior high schools. As part of the rolling out of the project, she has donated hand sanitizers to seven SHSs in the Upper East Region under the Samira Empowerment …

Tamale, Ghana – The North-West Regional Superintendent of the Assemblies of God Church – Reverend Dr David Wumbei Akonsi, has urged Ghanaians and especially Christians, to lead a vigorous campaign against illicit drug abuse among the youth. He said as salt and light of the world, Christians should not sit …

There’s a very common myth in South and Central Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan etc.) and Africa (Nigeria and many other nations ) that you can tell if a woman is a virgin, by whether or not she bleeds the first time she has sex. There is zero truth in this. …

Tamale, Ghana – Chief Executive Officer of the NHIA, Dr Samuel Annor, has implored citizens, leadership and members of Ghana’s Trades Union Congress to protect and defend the country’s ailing NHIS from political influence. According to Dr Annor, it was imperative that Ghanaians and for that matter the country’s labour …

Nandom, Ghana – Sustainable Action through Voluntary Establishment (SAVE Ghana), a Non-Governmental Organisation [NGO], has presented some items to the Nandom District Health Directorate to help increase immunization coverage in the district. The items include; a motorbike for nurses, wellington boots for 10 Community Volunteers and immunization registers to the …