Health

Coronavirus patient has run away in Kumasi – Says MP

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia North, Collins Owusu Amankwah, has disclosed that an individual, who has tested positive for COVID-19, is in hiding in...

Doctor wearing protective mask finds sweet way to reassure coronavirus patients

A doctor who recognised how daunting it must be for coronavirus patients to be admitted to hospital found a sweet way to make it a more...

Sex toy companies booming in lockdown season

As the United Kingdom continues adjusting to life in lockdown, Brits are missing many things from the pre-coronavirus world. Seeing friends, going out for a...

Covid-19 Fight: Why I’d rather donate towards provision of PPEs – John Mahama

Former President and flag bearer of opposition National Democratic Congress, says he prefers buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for frontline health workers to making...

Mahama refuses to donate salary into COVID-19 National Fund (Watch)

Former president John Dramani Mahama has declined to donate his salary into the COVID-19 national fund. Mr Mahama, speaking to Joy News in an...

Covid-19: ‘Hungry’ women reject govt’s free food, find out why [watch]

Some women in the slummy areas of Maamobi in Accra have done the unthinkable by rejecting food distributed to them by some officials of...

Counselor Lutterodt storms cemetery with a bottle of water, anointing oil and wine to fight Covid-19 [Watch]

Controversial Ghanaian marriage counsellor, Cyril George Carstensen Lutterodt, popularly known as Counsellor Lutterodt, has stormed the Osu Cemetery to pray against the coronavirus pandemic. In...

I don’t care… I’m proud of being black – WHO boss [watch]

The director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned world leaders to not politicize the response to COVID-19, saying doing so will...

Heartbreaking final moments of coronavirus patients who die alone in hospital

There is no corner of Britain untouched by coronavirus - the country is in lockdown and many know someone who has suffered from the...

These four countries ‘particularly vulnerable’ to coronavirus – Report

South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Sudan are particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19, says a new survey of...

Coronavirus: Health effects of a COVID-19 recession ‘could be worse than the pandemic’

The full effect of the coronavirus pandemic on people's long-term and mental health will not be felt for two years, experts have predicted. While the...

Do not panic over increasing Covid-19 cases – GHS

The citizenry have been advised not to panic over the increasing cases of COVID-19 being recorded in the country. Mr Joel Abekuliya, Health Promotion Officer...

CSM kills 37; over 200 people infected!

Thirty-Seven out of 214 persons under treatment for Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the Upper West region have died. The Upper West Regional Director of Health, Dr Osei...

Covid-19: Obour’s household, contacts test negative as pressure mounts on Ridge Hospital

Former Musicians Association of Ghana (MUSIGA) president, Bice Osei Kuffour, popularly known as Obour, has been vindicated as results of coronavirus tests conducted on...

Covid-19: Lele Group donates to Trust Fund

Lele Group of Companies, importers of Lele products and other range of products have donated money and various items to the Ghana Covid-19 Trust...

Covid-19: Act promptly to save Ghana and the world – Sheik Amin Bonsu

A leading player in the field of herbal and alternative medicine practice in Ghana, Sheik Amin Bonsu, has called on regulatory authorities to act...

Coronavirus: 43 contacts in Tema test negative

Some 43 contacts traced in the Tema Metropolis in the contact tracing exercise by the government have tested negative to the virus, Tema...

Meet the Ghanaian Professor leading ventilator invention to combat coronavirus

A Ghanaian Professor, Fred Maclory, is currently leading a team of students, health professionals and other professors to invent ventilators to aid in Ghana's...

Frontline Health Workers Incentives: Former NHIA boss challenges Prez’s decision

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Sylvester Mensah has challenged President Akufo-Addo's decision to remunerate only government nurses. His comment...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 6th death

One more person has been confirmed dead in Ghana after contracting Coronavirus, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reports. Details of the deceased, however, are unknown...

Covid-19: Ghana’s case count now 313 as nation records 26 new cases

Ghana’s total case count for COVID-19 has increased to 313. This follows the confirmation of 26 new positive cases. The confirmation comes as more...

Nurse haunted by dying coronavirus patients’ ringtones

A nurse on the front line of the coronavirus fight is haunted by the sound of critically ill patients' ringing phones as distraught families...

Nurse, 21, on coronavirus frontline writes a Will [photo]

A 21-year-old nurse has told how she wrote her will because she fears she could die from coronavirus. ALSO READ: Why Ronaldinho was released from Paraguayan...

Covid-19: Why Ghana has recorded low death rate – Dr Nsiah Asare

Special Advisor to President Akufo-Addo on health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has credited Ghana's low death rate in relation to the coronavirus to the good...

Coronavirus: Mum narrates her 12-week-old daughter’s fight for life [Photos]

A 27-year-old mother has narrated the ordeal her 12-week-old baby girl had to pass through while fighting Coronavirus. Baby, Winter-Rose Watson, was rushed to hospital...

Doctor shares why you need to focus on your Vitamin D levels more right now

It has been almost two months since India detected its first Coronavirus case. We have seen a sudden spike and if medical experts are to...

Coronavirus: Unemployed Allied Health Professionals make shocking demands

Members of the Coalition of Graduate Unemployed Allied Health Professionals are threatening to quit contact tracing duties if government does not employ them. The group,...

Covid-19: 3 chair exercises you should do every day

Two weeks into the lockdown, many of us are still getting used to our "new home routine". Even though staying at home is the...

WHO warns of ‘new front’ in coronavirus battle

Coronavirus has spread exponentially in recent weeks across the continent and the World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of a "new front" in the...

Coronavirus: Kingdom Exim Ghana Ltd donates to Techiman North district

Techiman North District in the Bono East Region is the latest to benefit from Kingdom Exim Ghana Limited’s series of donations towards the fight...

Coronavirus: 43 contacts in Tema test negative

Forty-three contacts traced in the Tema Metropolis in the contact tracing exercise by government, have tested negative to the virus, Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate...

Fake hand sanitiser producers in trouble

The Food and Drugs Authority says it has approved 250 brands of hand sanitizers for sale and use by the public. Though 25 are produced in the Ashanti...

Majority leader draws nation’s attention to deadly meningitis as disease kills 33 people

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, is calling for critical attention to cerebrospinal meningitis, as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic. The Suame MP...

Covid-19: Normalcy returns to Tema Polyclinic after nurse tests positive

Following assurance from the Tema West Municipal Health Director, Dr Mercy Obrempong, Tema Polyclinic has begun full services after Covid-19 disinfection. Part of the facility...

Coronavirus patient gives birth in isolation ward

A woman undergoing treatment for coronavirus (COVID-19) in an isolation ward in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, gave birth to a baby girl over the...

Covid-19: Trump tears WHO apart for failing the world; threatens “powerful hold” action

US President Donald Trump has threatened to hold back funding to the World Health Organization, potentially leaving the agency without support from its largest...

Northern Region to get coronavirus testing lab

The Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR) is working with the Ghana Health Service to set up a laboratory in the Northern Region...

Veterinary doctor warns people that pets can pass coronavirus between humans

A veterinary doctor has warned people that pets like cats and dogs could help pass Coronavirus between humans even though the chances of that...

Coronavirus: GMA applauds Akufo-Addo for ‘bold decisions’ taken

The President of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Frank Ankobea, has applauded the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the...