The 2023 Miss Malaika Beauty Pageant winner and National HIV Youth Ambassador, Lady Nana Yaa Nsarko, has admonished Kayayeis and rape victims to seek immediate medical care within 72 hours to prevent HIV infection.
Category: Health
Conflict-related sexual violence: ICC holds training on Victim and Witness support in Ukraine
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has held training on witness protection and support for victims of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine.
Frontiers COVID-19 testing at KIA saved Ghana – Transport Minister
The Minister for Transport, Kweku Ofori Asiamah, has revealed that had it not been the timely intervention of Frontiers Healthcare Services for the conduct of COVID-19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), Ghana would have suffered more consequences than what it was witnessing today. Testing of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at the Kotoka International […]
Ghana 2021 Census: No tribe will be left out – GSS
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has said that the upcoming Population and Housing Census will be an inclusive exercise where every tribe or ethnic group in Ghana will be captured without discrimination no matter the size of their numbers.
Parliament impressed with robust COVID-19 testing procedure at KIA
The robust COVID-19 testing procedure at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, was subjected to strict scrutiny by Members of the Select Committee of Parliament on Health, with the lawmakers expressing satisfaction with the operational procedure.
U/E: GHS, others train health workers on larval source management
The National Malaria Control Programme (NAMCOP) and its partners—Ghana Health Service (GHS), Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research (NMIMR) and Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), have organised a one-day training workshop in Larval Source Management (LSM) for key stakeholders in the Upper East regional capital, Bolgatanga.
Travel restrictions needed to curb importation of COVID-19 cases – Minority to Gov’t
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority Caucus in Parliament has called on the government to as a matter of urgency, institute and implement enhanced measures at the Kotoka International Airport to control the importation of COVID-19 cases into Ghana.
Frontiers alarmed over high rate of COVID-19 positive cases recorded at KIA
The company tasked with the responsibility of providing Coronavirus testing at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), Frontiers Health Services (FHS), has raised alarm over high rate of positive COVID-19 recorded cases at the country’s point of entry.
Your body determines your energy levels available for productivity- Dr. China
A fromer Deputy Ambassador to China, Dr. Charles Dwamena, has advised students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to ensure that they are physically fit as the physical status of their bodies determines the level of physical energy available for productivity.
GHS probes stealing and selling of COVID-19 vaccine
The Ghana Health Service has began administrative inquiry into the stealing and selling of COVID-19 vaccine by some staff of the service. Stephen Dzisenu, a 37-year-old Disease Control Officer of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital is in the grips of the Greater Accra Police for stealing 36 vials of Covishield. Cosmos Allotey a 42-year-old Occupational […]
Cost of COVID-19 on Ghana’s economy has been enormous – Akufo-Addo
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, walked to the country’s legislature and gave an account to the law makers of the dire consequences of the novel corona virus (COVID-19) on the Ghanaian economy.
Bawumia and wife avail themselves for COVAX COVID-19 vaccine Jab
The Vice-President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and his wife, Samira Bawumia, have received their first vaccination against the novel coronavirus.