Health

Accra, Ghana – Penplusbytes kicks off its Health Education and Resource Equity (H.E.R.E.) and Now project in Ghana and Mali on the back of several years of work to increase access to quality healthcare for vulnerable groups in Ghana. Funded by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), the …

Accra, Ghana – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is on a manhunt for credentialled service providers who are demanding extra money (out of pocket payments) for medical services covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). In collaboration with the law enforcement agencies, the Authority has hastened its investigations …

Tamale, Ghana – MTN Ghana’s operational performance in the first quarter of 2021 was anchored on its execution of various ‘Ambition 2025’ initiatives in data, MoMo and digital services. Amid accelerated digitalisation, the mobile network operator has committed to spend US$149 million in total capital expenditure in the year to …

Sagnerigu, Ghana – The National Insurance Commission and the Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service will soon clamp down on vehicles with fake and invalid insurance policies in the country, Deputy Commissioner of the NIC Kofi Andoh has hinted. According to Mr. Andoh, there are …

Tamale, Ghana –The Upper West Region has recorded 86 cases of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) with one death between January and April 2021, that is according to data released by the Ghana Health Service. There is however a decline in the number of cases and deaths recorded same period in 2020. …

Tamale, Ghana – MTN Ghana Foundation has presented personal protective equipment worth thousands of Ghana cedis to the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) in Tamale to enable the only referral medical facility in Northern Ghana continue with its fight against the corona virus pandemic. “During this pandemic, we have acknowledged that …

Tamale, Ghana – Samuel Zan Akologo, Executive Secretary of Caritas Ghana, a charity organization of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC), has called for equitable access to covid-19 vaccines by all Ghanaian citizens and persons resident in the country. Accordingly, he appealed to all Ghanaians to accept and agree to …

Accra, Ghana – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has enrolled Madam Georgina Yawa Ankrah, a partially blind and crippled woman who appealed to the Government to help her take care of her daughter with down syndrome, onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Madam Georgina Yawa Ankrah and her …

Nanton, Ghana – Member of Parliament for the Nanton Constituency in the Northern Region, Alhaji Habib Iddrisu, has launched the Soya-Lana Educational Endowment Fund. The launch is a fulfilment of one his 2020 campaign promises to the people of Nanton. Launching the Fund on Monday, Alhaji Iddrisu said: “Similar to …

Accra, Ghana – Due to the reopening of Senior High Schools, some parents and students have massed up at the NHIS District Offices for registration and renewal of their old membership cards. This has caused traffic at the District Offices, a situation, management is taking pragmatic measures to ease congestion …