Tag: World Health Organisation
Nine vaccines at phase-three of clinical trials for Covid-19 treatment
Mr Zhu Jing, Charge d’Affaires of the Chinese Embassy, said the COVID-19 situation would soon improve as close to nine vaccines have entered phase-three...
COVID-19: NCCE/GMA call on political parties to adopt innovative campaigning
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and the Ghana Medical Association(GMA)have urged political parties to adopt innovative campaigning methods as part of efforts...
Bloomberg Philanthropies begin six-year road safety support in Ghana
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly, the Ministry of Transport and the National Road Safety Authority; with support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road...
AMA Chief Executive lauds Bloomberg Philanthropies for extending road safety project
Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive has lauded Bloomberg Philanthropies for Global Road Safety for extending the six-year road safety project...
Don’t undermine the COVID protocols
The Reverend Thomas Henry Quamson, Head Pastor, Assemblies of God, Holy Ghost Worship Centre, Ashaiman has instructed his congregants not to undermine the COVID...
Achieving high quality patient safety is our priority -Dr Srofenyoh
Dr Emmanuel Srofenyoh, the Medical Director of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, has assured stakeholders that the facility was keen on achieving high quality...
Ghana commemorates World Patients Safety Day
Statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO), has shown that millions of patients globally, suffer injuries and death due to unsafe care they receive...
Over 1.1 million children to be immunized in Ashanti
The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate is targeting to immunize 1,184,860 children below five years against Polio as it joins seven other regions for a...
About 173,693 children to receive polio vaccination
The Ghana Health Service has announced that about 173,693 children under five years in the Upper West Region are to receive polio vaccination in...
2020 WASSCE was successful – Heads of SHS
This year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) which started with practical subjects on July 20, is expected to end tomorrow, September 5,...
WHO survey reveals widespread disruptions to essential health services
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has published the first indicative survey on the impact of COVID-19 on health systems based on 105 countries’ report.
A...
The Heroes of the win Against Wild Polio virus
Nigeria was on August 25 2020 formally certified free of Wild Polio Virus by the World Health Organisation, WHO. It was part of the...
CSOs urge government to reject support from tobacco industry
The Institute of Leadership and Development (INSLA), a civil society organization has called on the Government to reject any support from the tobacco industry...
Philip Foundation calls for the reopening of schools
Philip Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has called on government to expedite actions on the re-opening of schools in the country after the easing of...
minoHealth, Imperial College London wins grant to undertake
minoHealth, a Ghanaian startup in AI Labs, in partnership with Imperial College London, has won the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Digital Innovation for...
Upper East unites against COVID-19
The Upper East Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has rolled out the ‘Bolgatanga Unite Against COVID-19’ campaign to scale-up public...
GMA trains staff on proper observance of COVID-19 protocols
The Global Media Alliance (GMA), a marketing communications industry leader, has organised a virtual training session for its staff on the proper observance of...
NCCE empower students with knowledge against COVID-19
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has descended into academic institutions to empower students and teachers with knowledge to disarm the spread of...
Volta FDA arrests drug peddler for selling ‘holy water’
Andrews Agbena, an itinerant drug peddler has been arrested by the Volta Regional Directorate of the Food and Drug Authority (FDA) for selling "Adomfe"...
HIV response is still failing children-UNAIDS
The latest report on the progress towards the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free targets has shown that despite great progress made since the...
NCDC: Sanction Clerics Who Make COVID-19 Faith Healing Claims
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) should put in place measures to punish all clerics- pastors and prophets, mallams/imams, traditional priests, and others...
Communication Information Centres taking education to the poor
The COVID-19 pandemic, indeed, has changed the way of life of all and sundry since the outbreak at the Wuhan Province in China last...
Rotary calls for strict observance of COVID-19 protocols
Mr Oswald Oduro, the President of Rotary Club of Accra Ring Road Central, has advised the public to observe all Covid-19 protocols as directed...
France says no link between origin of COVID-19, Wuhan lab
France has recently announced that it does not have information to corroborate a possible link between the origin of the novel coronavirus and the...
Makarios Avenue Church urges Ghanaians to help fight Covid-19
The Reverend Danny Doku, Head Pastor of the Makarios Avenue Church in Accra, has called on Ghanaians to help fight the coronavirus disease (Covid-19),...
Suppress COVID-19 transmission by all means – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked all nations to make it an urgent responsibility to suppress transmission of the coronavirus and save lives,...
Ghana’s COVID-19 recoveries have risen to 10,074 following the new discharge protocols
The review of discharge protocols covers patients who do not display symptoms of the virus and patients whose symptoms die down during treatment.
For patients...
COVID-19: GHS amends discharge policy
The Ghana Health Service (GHS), based on the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) new guidelines and the local evidence, has amended the discharge policy...
WHO urges nations to prepare for Influenza amidst Coronavirus pandemic
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the world must not lose sight of significant public health issues like influenza which affects every country every...
Government affirms commitment to bringing stranded Ghanaians
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has reiterated Government’s commitment to assist and bring home Ghanaians stranded...