Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has assured that the Meningitis situation in the Upper West Region is under control, calling for concerted efforts from...
The Central Regional Environmental Health Office has cautioned families who lose their relatives to cholera to bury them immediately to protect the community.
The office...
The European Union (EU) has allocated GHC 1.6 million (€100,000) in humanitarian funding to aid communities affected by the ongoing cholera outbreak.
The outbreak, which...
The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has reassured residents of the Upper West Region that the government is actively working to contain the...
The Ghana Health Service has announced a cholera vaccination campaign targeting children across the Accra Metropolitan area.
This initiative is part of efforts to combat...
The female population of Persons Living with HIV and AIDS (PLwHAs) in the Bono Region outnumbers the male population, according to statistics from the...
A month after an Ebola outbreak struck Uganda in September 2022, Edward Kayiwa began feeling unwell: headaches, fever and muscle pain.
He knew something was...
The Effutu Municipal Hospital has confirmed 29 cases of cholera out of 356 recorded cases in the municipality.
According to the hospital, one person has...
The Paediatric Society of Ghana has honoured Adom TV/FM’s Afia Amankwah Tamakloe for her outstanding dedication and commitment to maternal and child health advocacy.
This...
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced that all health workers involved in the cholera vaccination exercise in the Central Region will receive vaccines...
Nearly 700,000 women are set to participate in an NHS artificial intelligence (AI) breast cancer screening trial in England.
Five different AI platforms will be...
The Health Minister-designate, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has outlined plans to address unemployment among health professionals by creating opportunities for them to work in countries...
Minister-Designate for Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has pledged to investigate the controversial ambulance maintenance contract if confirmed by Parliament.
Speaking during his vetting on Friday,...
A study by WHO-AFRO evaluating the five-year progress of the implementation of the regional cholera prevention and control framework adopted in 2018, has shown...
President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Prof. Samuel Kaba Akoriyea as the new Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), succeeding Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye.
During...
Susana Twumwaa, the Midwife in Charge of the Antenatal and Postnatal Clinics at the Sunyani Teaching Hospital, has expressed concern about the growing trend...
At least 20 children living with cerebral palsy in the Ashanti region, together with their families, are anxious for respite after being evacuated from...
The Upper West Region has recorded 17 suspected cases of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM), resulting in six confirmed deaths, according to Dr. Collins Boateng Danquah,...
Families of two children diagnosed with cancer have struggled to raise funds for their treatment.
Two-year-old Halila was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, commonly called eye cancer,...
Ghanaians have been urged to reduce meat consumption to at least once a week for their well-being and to prevent Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
The Executive...
Maintaining a healthy weight is a vital element of self-care and plays a key role in promoting physical health and overall quality of life.
Interestingly,...
Scottish researchers are working on a new AI tool that could be used by high-street opticians to spot the early signs of dementia.
Photographs taken...
The Oti Regional Health Director, Dr. Osei Kuffour Afreh, has expressed grave concern over the safety of health workers in Nkwanta South, as escalating...
Emmanuel Agyapong, the father of 20-year-old Bridget Agyapong, has urgently appealed to Ghanaians for financial support to fund her surgery, which is critical to...
Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any...
President John Dramani Mahama has pledged his government’s commitment to ensuring the timely completion and operationalization of the Sewua Hospital in the Ashanti Region.
Speaking...
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed the rising respiratory infections, particularly those caused by the Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV).
In a statement, GHS noted the...
CEO of Endpoint Homeopathic Hospital, Dr. Adu Boateng, has emphasized the importance of maintaining good health as the foundation for achieving success and wealth.
Speaking...
A new study by Rivia Network on Ghana’s socio-medical landscape has identified the top five health conditions contributing to worker absenteeism in the country.
According...
Sierra Leone has declared a public health emergency after two cases of mpox were reported.
The West African country’s health minister announced the move on Monday...
About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today’s toll, researchers reported Monday.
That estimate is based on...
Oral sex has now been identified as the leading cause of throat cancer, overtaking smoking, alcohol consumption, and poor diet, according to medical experts.
The...
