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Some 108 bonded Registered Diploma Community Nurses have called on the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, and the Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council to provide them with jobs or “we would be forced to speak the language that the Ministry and government understand to demand what is rightfully ours”.The …

Government has given financial clearance for 130 doctors to be posted to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) beginning October this year to replace some 150 doctors who left the facility after completing their housemanship, Minister of Health, Kweku Agyemang-Manu, has said.This development follows the hospital’s decision to suspended new …

The Mental Health Authority is calling for concerted efforts to reduce suicide related deaths in the country as Ghana joins the rest of the world to mark Suicide Prevention Day today. According to the Authority it is using this year’s event which has the theme ‘Take a Minute, Change a …

A harmful virus that can cause devastating brain damage in babies could offer up a surprising new treatment for adult brain cancer, according to US scientists. Until now, Zika has been seen only as a global health threat – not a remedy. But latest research shows the virus can selectively …

A job which requires much but produces no monetary reward is what Emmanuel Annabil has taken up to do for the rest of his life. Shaving, bathing, and clothing the mentally challenged on the streets of Accra, is what he has been doing for 15 years of his life and …

Some nursing and midwifery training institutions across the country are charging unapproved fees, contrary to the directive issued by the Ministry of Health (MOH) not to do so.Some of the bills stumbled upon by the Daily Graphic showed that those institutions were charging a combined fee of almost GH¢2,400, as …

The quota placed on nursing training institutions by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) will create more problems in the health sector, Apostle Daniel Walker, Rector at the Pentecost University, has said.Per the new directive issued by the NMC, prospective applicants to the 75 accredited Nursing Training institutions in the …

The Ghana Health Service has begun distributing Polio vaccines to various health facilities in the country after reports of shortage in July 2017. The manager for the National Expanded Program of Immunisation (EPI), Doctor George Bonsu told Joy News they have dispatched vaccines to some of the regions. “So far …

It’s easy to forget about your own needs when you have a newborn baby to care for, but eating healthily and regularly is one of the best ways of looking after yourself and your baby. Dietitian and leading child nutritionist Frankie Phillips explains how to eat well for breastfeeding… Everyone …

An estimated 20,000 people within the six political districts in the Sefwi enclave of the Western Region are undergoing free eye screening exercise as and surgeries. The nine-day event dubbed Avoidable Blindness Elimination Project which is being carried out by a team of ophthalmologist from the Friends Eye Center is …