Tag: maternal
Star Ghana initiates measures to improve maternal and child healthcare services
Star Ghana Foundation (SGF), in partnership with Community Development Alliance (CDA), have initiated a process to address the impact of COVID-19 on access to...
Work towards reduction of maternal and preventable diseases – Deputy Director
Dr. Anthony Ofosu, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has entreated health professionals to work towards the reduction of maternal deaths and...
Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana, Novartis launch App
The Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (SCFG), in collaboration with Novartis has developed a mobile digital application (App) to help manage the data collected...
Obuasi government hospital receives medical equipment
The maternal and children’s ward of the Obuasi government hospital has taken delivery of medical equipment worth over GH¢ 9,000.00.
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JAVA Moore Foundation Supports CCTH to combat maternal, neonatal deaths
Efforts to reduce maternal and neronatal deaths at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) has received a major boost with the donation of five...
Patients, staff of Maternal and Children’s Hospital thrilled on Chocolate Day
Activities at the Maternal and Children’s Hospital, Kumasi, was brought to a temporary halt as enthusiastic patients and staff...
Techiman Director of Health Has Indicated a Decline in Maternal Mortality
The Techiman Municipal Health Directorate in the Brong-Ahafo Region has recorded a reduction in maternal mortality cases in 2018, Madam Florence Iddrisa, the Municipal...
GHS Poised To Address Maternal, Child Health And Nutrition Issues In Ghana
The Director-General of Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, has announced that the Service would be holding its first National Maternal, Child Health...
UE: Ghana Red Cross Society Expands MNCH Project
The Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) has scaled up its Maternal, New-born and Child Health (MNCH) project to cover the Talensi and Pusiga Districts...
Ghana’s Second Lady Launches GHS & JICA Booklet on Maternal and Child Health
An integrated health record booklet that seeks to significantly raise the quality of maternal and child healthcare has been launched in Cape Coast, by...
Ghana’s maternal and infant health enhanced under NHIS
Mr Sebastian Alagpulinsa, the Upper East Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) on Wednesday said the free maternal health policy by...
Model Mothers and Volunteers join the wagon in reducing maternal and infant mortality in...
“Before the intervention, many of us delivered at homes leading to birth complications. But now it is not so. Many of us through the...
Ghana Chalks Success in Maternal and Child Health
Threats to life in early childhood and to women during child birth in Ghana have gone down, according to preliminary reports released here on...
UNFPA secures US$3.5 million to cut maternal mortality in Somalia
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said Monday it has secured 3.5 million U.S. dollar grant for reduction of maternal mortality in Somalia.
UNFPA Representative...
World Prematurity day observed in U/E
The Upper East Region on Friday marked the World Prematurity day at the Tanga-Poore Community in the Bongo District with a call on stakeholders,...
CRS launch projects to impact well-being of underprivileged
The Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has launched two projects in health to positively impact on the well-being of 10...
MBFHI Project Boost Antenatal Care In Bongo
The Mother-Baby-Friendly Health Facility Initiative (MBFHI) project being piloted in forty-two communities in the Bongo District has led to increased visits to antenatal and...
Gov’t of Ghana Pays Debt Own NHIS
Government has paid GH¢600 million to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), out of its total indebtedness to the scheme, which has improved...
NAS Builds Capacity Of Medical Technicians
The National Ambulance Service (NAS) has begun nationwide training to build the capacity of its emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to give professional care to...
MMDAs Cautioned Against Misapplying HIV/AIDS Funds
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to stop misapplying funds meant to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS infection.
Mr. Mukaila Adamu of...
Rotary Club Organize Free Breast Screening For Market Women
The Rotary Club of Sekondi/Takoradi has organized a free screening exercise on breast lumps for more than 400 market women and other women's group...
JICA Introduced in Ghana a Combined MCH Record Book
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to support Ghana to improve Continuum of Care through introduction of combined Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Record...
Using Visual Communication to Promote and Behavioural Change for Maternal-Infant Health
One of the major barriers to accessing quality health care being it either maternal or infant health care or any health issue is the...
Maternal and neonatal tetanus eradicated in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has officially confirmed the complete eradication of maternal and neonatal tetanus in the country. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has thus become...
Mothers’ Day: Mrs. Akufo-Addo Seeks Support to Lessen Maternal Deaths
The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo’s Mothers’ Day message highlighted the strides left to be made in order to reduce child and maternal mortality to acceptable...
Immunization In Asokore-Mampong Rising Steadily
The Asokore-Mampong Municipality has been recording poor immunization coverage - ranked the lowest nationwide.
In year 2014, it achieved 26 per cent coverage, rising to...
Expectant Mothers Encouraged To Heed Counsel Of Medical Practitioners
Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu on Wednesday encouraged expectant mothers to heed the counsel of medical practitioners on newly born babies to help reduce...
Central, Western Regions Fortified By USAID Projects
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Ghana Mission Director, Andrew Karas, traveled to the Central and Western Regions from March 27-31 to...
NGO Supports Three Health Facilities in Fighting Maternal & Infant Mortality
A Non Governmental Organization, Savana Signatures (Save Sign) has widened its scope to fight maternal and infant mortality by supporting 33 health facilities in...
3000 Distress Pregnant Women Get Relief
Vodafone Ghana Foundation, in partnership with Divine Mother and Child Foundation, has brought relief to more than 3000 distressed pregnant women.
The relief, which came...