Tag: CHPS
Mampamhwe gets CHPS compound
Dr. Patrick Boakye-Yiadom, Member of Parliament for Obuasi East, has inaugurated a Community-based Health Promotion and Services (CHPS) compound for the people of...
Ketu South Assembly asked to commission completed maternity block
Staff of Lente-Wute Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound in the Ketu South Municipality are asking the Assembly to commission a newly constructed...
Adaklu MP hands over CHPS compounds to Health Directorate
Mr Kwame Governs Agbodza, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Adaklu Constituency in the Volta Region has handed over two new Community-based Health Planning...
Philanthropist supports COVID-19 fight in Ketu South
Mr Felix Akakpo is popularly known as Akonta, an Accra-based businessman has donated some items to the Ketu South Municipal Health Directorate to...
Achiase District extends water services to promote hand washing
In order to ensure effective hand washing as one of the ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Achiase District Assembly is undertaking...
New Movement supports COVID-19 fight in Nabdam
Mr Lamtiig Apanga, a Legal Practitioner based in Accra has formed a movement known as “Lamtiig Apanga Initiative against Coronavirus”, to mobilize support to...
Twenty-three communities in Hohoe attain Open Defecation Free status
A total of 23 communities in the Hohoe Municipality of the Volta region have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) with four new communities...
Consortium of CSOs petitions government for equitable health systems
A consortium of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), campaigning for improved universal access to quality healthcare in the country, has called for the government...
Maternal mortality rate dips in Central Region
Health facilities in the Central Region have made significant strides in reducing maternal mortality from 126 in the year 2018 to 105 in 2019,...
Take advantage of the government’s FSHS education programme – MCE
Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Sunyani East Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) has advised parents and guardians to take advantage of the government’s Free Senior High...
Danger looms as CHPS compound becomes a source of diseases
A Community based Health Planning and Service(CHPS) in Tema Newtown is now a possible source of diseases and apparentt discomfort.
A...
NiPDA seeks active community participation in development.
The Ningo Prampram District Assembly (NiPDA) has organized a social auditing exercise to assess various projects undertaken by the assembly as part of popular...
Midwife calls for security for CHPS compound
Madam Faustina Lami Abatera, the Midwife in charge of the Kolinvai Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound located in the East Mumprusi...
Japan government assists 3 organisations in Ghana with $245,633 Grant
The Japan Government through the Grassroots Human Security Project (GGHSP) has assisted three organisations to construct Boreholes in Binduri, a Primary School Block at...
WAHO cross border campaign for family planning, HIV screening launched at Aflao
Mr Alexander Abban, Deputy Minister of Health Tuesday launched the West Africa Health Organization (WAHO) cross border campaign for...
GHS/JICA implements policy towards building health resilience
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in conjunction with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has rolled out a five-year project in northern Ghana to meet...
Essamang CHPS compound cries for help to save lives
The Essamang Community-Based Health and Planning Services (CHPS), compound, near Daboase in the Wassa West District of the Western region, lacks basic logistics and...
MBFHI project aids in maternal mortality reduction in Upper East
The Mother Baby Friendly Health Initiative (MBFHI) programme in the Upper East Region has contributed to the reduction of maternal mortality in the Region,...
Prioritise education of children for better future – Escof Zinnia Foundation
The Founder and Executive Director of Escof Zinnia Foundation, Mrs Esther Donkoh, has urged parents and other education stakeholders to prioritise education of children...
Nyorugu Community Has No Water nor Toilet Facilities
The people of Nyorugu, a farming community in the Bawku Municipality have expressed their frustration that duty bearers were not doing enough to provide...
Akyem-Adukrom Citizens Raise Funds to Build health Centre
The chiefs and people of Akyem-Adukrom, a farming community near Kyebi, have organized a fundraising durbar to raise funds to build a Community Health...
Asutifi North Assembly Fights Open Defecation by Building Community Toilets
The Asutifi North District Assembly, Brong-Ahafo Region, is constructing aqua-privy toilets for residents of Kensere and Kwadwo Adaekrom, cocoa growing communities in the District,...
Having Swollen Legs is a Sign for Twins
Madam Mavis Amedzorku, Mid-wife in charge of Adaklu-Kodzobi Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound, has described as hollow the belief that pregnant women...
Government asked to vote more funds to healthcare
Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), a Civil Society Organization (CSO), has appealed to the government to do more to improve the infrastructure and...
National Guideline for Cancer Management in Ghana Launched
The Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), in collaboration with Roche Ghana Limited, a Pharmaceutical Company, at the weekend launched the...
Maternal mortality improves in Ghana, but country still far from target – report
Out of 100,000 pregnant women who gave birth (live births) in Ghana between 2011 and last year, 310 died over the period, results of...
Poor communities demand well manned CHPS compound
The residents of five cocoa growing communities in the Sunyani Municipality have appealed to the Municipal Assembly to intervene for the operationalisation of the...
Kwahu West Municipal Assembly priorities health care
The Kwahu West Municipal Assembly has made access to quality health care a major priority on its development agenda.
Mr. Yaw Owusu Addo, the Municipal...
Ministry of Health launch project to support Community-based Health
The Ministry of Health through the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has launched a project; Strengthening Community-based Health...
Ghana Health Service sets up group to fix CHPS implementation challenges
The government of Ghana has shown commitment to making health care services accessible to rural population through its Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS)...