Tag: GHS
GHS calls for media support to eradicate malaria
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has called on journalists to support the Service to deliver integrated health package through accurate messages towards malaria eradication...
Young people asked to utilise family planning services
This year’s National Family Planning (FP) Week and World Contraception Day has been launched in Accra with a call on the youth to utilize...
GHS to establish top-up health insurance scheme – Deputy DG
Dr. Anthony Adofo Ofosu, the Deputy Director-General (DG) of the Ghana Health Services (GHS) says the Governing Council of the Service will be establishing...
GHS, partners sensitise Central Region Chiefs on COVID-19, stigma
The Ministry of Information, Ghana Health Service (GHS), and partners have organised a capacity building workshop to sensitise the Central Regional House of Chiefs...
COVID-19: Ghana records two more deaths
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Friday recorded two more deaths from the COVID-19 infection, bringing the current death toll to 285.
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MOH, GHS to embark on Phase 3 polio mass immunization
The Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ghana Health Service (GHS), and partners are set to embark on a polio outbreak reactive mass vaccination in...
Make your children available for polio Immunisation-GHS
Mr Joseph Kwami Degley, the Ketu South Municipal Director, Ghana Health Service (GHS), has urged the residents in the Municipality to make their...
Over 4.5 million under five children to be immunized against polio
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is targeting to immunize about 4.5 million children below the age of five years against Polio Virus Type 2,...
Survey on malaria prevalence among children in Accra to begin next month
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will in September this year conduct a survey to find out the accurate prevalence of malaria parasite among children...
Adhere to COVID-19 protocols or face severe sanctions
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, reminded Ghanaians that those who flout COVID-19 protocols will be published.
The President said the high compliance rate...
COVID-19: Disregard for Safety protocols very dangerous – GHS Warns
Dr Da Costa Aboagye, Director of Health Promotion of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has expressed worry over the public’s continuous disregard for the...
COVID-19: Ghana records 117 new cases
Ghana has recorded 117 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the cumulative total of confirmed cases to 43,622, out of which 41,695 have recovered with...
GHS sensitizes adolescents health clubs in Wassa East District
The Ghana Health Service will roll out a set of interventions to educate the adolescents and young people on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights.
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COVID-19: Ghana confirms nine more deaths
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says nine more patients have succumbed to the COVID-19 disease, increasing the country's death toll to 248.
The nine deaths,...
Ghana’s COVID-19 tally hits 42,210
Ghanaian health authorities confirmed 147 more infections of the novel coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the country's total cases to 42,210, according to the latest...
Ghana’s COVID-19 death toll reaches 223
The number of the novel coronavirus cases in Ghana has risen to 41,572, as health authorities confirmed 168 more infections on Wednesday, said the...
COVID-19: UNFPA donates to reduce risks of frontline health workers
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on Tuesday, donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to be distributed to the...
COVID-19 infections jump to 40,533 in Ghana
The number of the novel coronavirus cases in Ghana has risen to 40, 533, as health authorities confirmed 436 more infections on Saturday, said...
UNFPA to reduce teenage pregnancy in Bortianor with Wawa Aba platform
To help to address the concerns of adolescents on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), teenage pregnancy and family planning, the United Nations...
GHS, World Vision take steps to mitigate COVID-19 infections among mortuary workers
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and World Vision Ghana have started the training of mortuary workers across the country as part of efforts to...
Ghana records 567 new confirmed cases of COVID-19
The Ghana Health Service on Thursday reported 567 confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the country’s cumulative positive cases to 39,642 up from 39,075 on...
Number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 39,000 in Ghana
Ghanaian health authorities confirmed 1,263 more infections of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, raising the country's total case count to 39,075, according to the...
Stakeholder policy conference on pre-school re-opening underway
A virtual two-day stakeholder conference to brainstorm on a policy brief strategy on the re-opening of early childhood educational centres amidst COVID-19 “in...
Ghana’s COVID-19 cases surpass 37,000 with 787 more infections
The number of people infected by the novel coronavirus in Ghana has increased to 37,014 as 787 new cases confirmed here early Sunday, Ghana...
Ghana records 32,096 recoveries and discharges of COVID-19
Ghana has recorded 32,096 recoveries and discharges with the active cases declining steadily to 3,223, as at July 28, 2020.
However, seven more persons have...
Children Believe presents PPEs to Ghana Health Service
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has taken delivery of quantities of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), to be distributed to 16 health facilities in the...
GHS to publish outcome of Hydroxychloroquine use on COVID-19 patients
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it is monitoring the performance of the Hydroxychloroquine use for treating COVID-19 patients and will soon share the...
Ghana’s coronavirus cases close to 32,000
Ghanaian health authorities registered 794 new infections of the novel coronavirus in the early hours of Sunday, bringing the country's total caseload to 31,...
GHS to administer anti-malaria drugs to 244,199 children in Upper East
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region on Saturday began administering the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) therapy to children aged three...
Ghana’s number of COVID-19 cases surpasses 30,000
Ghana registered 694 more infections of the novel coronavirus here early Friday, increasing its national tally to 30,366, according to the latest update from...