Tag: Health
G7 summit kicks off with focus on pandemic and climate change
Leaders of the Group of Major Industrialized Nations (G7) are meeting on Friday for a summit that is overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
On the...
G7 aims to strengthen health care systems against future pandemics
The Group of Major Industrialised Nations (G7) aims to join forces to end the Covid-19 pandemic and strengthen health care systems worldwide to counter...
Health Minister inaugurates Governing Board of NHIA
Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, Minister of Health on Tuesday, inaugurated a 17-Member Governing Board of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), with a call on...
India to give free Covid vaccines, foodgrain rations for 800 million
India is improving vaccine supplies and will provide free shots to citizens over 18 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday, detailing changes to...
Germany’s Merkel drawn into controversy over face masks for homeless
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her health minister in a party meeting on Monday amid a controversy over the delivery of face masks to...
Taiwan extends virus control measures as case counts climb
Strict virus control measures will be extended through late June, officials in Taiwan announced on Monday, noting that new coronavirus infections have not slowed...
Slovakia starts inoculations with Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
Slovakia became the second country in the EU to start inoculating citizens with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine on Monday, even though the jab has...
German Covid-19 vaccines open for almost all as priority listing ends today
Anyone in Germany wanting to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus can now ask for an appointment.
With the end of the prioritization of vaccines...
Afghanistan records highest single-day Covid-19 death toll
Afghanistan on Sunday recorded the highest single-day death toll from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
The country's Health Ministry announced that 50 patients...
Chirano health centre gets maternity ward and laboratory
Chirano Gold Mines Company Limited has commissioned and handed over a GHC 470,000 maternity ward and laboratory facility for the Chirano health centre in...
Africa Health Supplies donate firefly Phototherapy and Colibri equipment to PSG hospitals across Ghana
Africa Health Supplies (AHS) Limited has made a donation of two Firefly Phototherapy Equipment, one Colibri Phototherapy Equipment and a cash amount of GHC5,000...
NHIA sensitizes healthcare providers on NHIS-Ghana card integration
Healthcare providers in the Western North Region have received training on how they could link the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card to the...
Catholic Relief Services supports Shekhinah Clinic
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), an international non-governmental organisation, has presented medical, food and other items to the Shekhinah Clinic in Tamale to support its...
Make Family Planning available to adolescents – NGO
Harnessing Talents for Rural Development (HATAFORD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the Jirapa Municipality, has appealed to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to...
Vodafone Ghana provides health screening for residents of Dawhwenya
Vodafone Ghana Foundation, the charity arm of Vodafone Ghana, on Friday provided free health screening services for residents of Dawhwenya in the Ningo Prampram...
Coronavirus shadow continues to loom over Taiwan
Taiwan is likely to see a new peak of coronavirus infections as 583 locally found Covid-19 patients and 17 new deaths were reported on...
Indian pharma’s vaccine gets 300-million-dose government order
The Indian government has signed a deal with domestic vaccine manufacturer Biological-E for 300 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate which is undergoing...
G7 Health Chiefs Meet in Oxford University to Talk New Approach Against Future Pandemics
Health ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) are meeting on Thursday at Oxford University, birthplace of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, to discuss a...
Abuakwa North MP supports health facilities with equipment
Ms Gifty Twum-Ampofo, Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency, has donated hospital equipment to support three health facilities towards improved service delivery in...
FDA unveils campaign to support tobacco smokers quit smoking
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has launched a year-long campaign dubbed: “Commit to Quit,” aimed at supporting tobacco smokers to abandon smoking as...
NGO calls for investment into SRH interventions for persons with mental illness
Basic Needs –Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has called for more investments into Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) interventions for persons with mental illness.
The...
Novo Nordisk and Ministry of Health partner to defeat diabetes in Ghana
The Ministry of Health in partnership with Denmark-based pharmaceutical firm, Novo Nordisk, has launched the Changing Diabetes in Children and the Insulin for Seniors...
Pandemic travel collapse continuing into 2021 – UNWTO
The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) said on Wednesday that first-quarter arrivals were down 83 percent on the same period last year, as pandemic restrictions...
Norway to donate one million Covid-19 vaccine doses through COVAX
Norway will provide 1 million coronavirus vaccine doses to poorer countries through the COVAX vaccine-sharing programme co-founded by the World Health Organization (WHO).
"There is...
More than half of US adults fully vaccinated against coronavirus
More than 50 per cent of US adults and 40 per cent of the US total population are fully vaccinated, according to the Centers...
Insurance cover of financial arrangement delays La Hospital project
Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang-Manu Tuesday informed Parliament that delays by Sinosure, the guarantor to the reconstruction of the La General Hospital, to issue the...
NGO Consortium in Health raises alarm on immunization financing
National immunization in Ghana is threatened with dwindling donor funding, NGO Consortium in Health has observed.
It has, therefore, urged the government to increase the...
HeFRA gives directive on who heads public laboratories
Health Facilities Regulatory Agency, HeFRA, has given a directive on who qualifies to head medical laboratories in public health facilities across the country
In a...
GAMLS calls off strike
The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has called off its nationwide strike, effective Monday, June 1.
Mr Adu Abudu Rahamani, President of GAMLS,...
Medical Laboratory Scientists call of strike
Striking members of the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) on Tuesday called off the strike action.
This was after a meeting by the...