President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the effective execution of the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Control, as well as the introduction of other innovative strategies means “Ghana stands ready to beat malaria.” Speaking at the Malaria Summit London 2018, on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, on the sidelines of the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government … Read more
One person has been confirmed dead in Accra from Lassa fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic illness. Director of Ghana Health Service, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, confirmed this to 3FM’s Sarah Parku Thursday after rumours Wednesday. He, however, declined to give details on case except to say “there will be a press release by close of work … Read more
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) Council, on Tuesday inaugurated a five-member Committee of Experts to promote medical tourism to enhance healthcare delivery in the country. Medical tourism primarily involves the travelling of people to other countries for the purpose of obtaining quality medical care. It has been envisaged that the promotion of medical tourism in … Read more
Medical doctors and dentists will from next year be employed under a quota system being introduced by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Director-General of GHS, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, who announced this explained that newly-trained doctors will no longer be posted but apply to the regions and sail through an interview process for them to be … Read more
The Government of Ghana has transferred about $10 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the procurement of polio and measles vaccines for the country. This follows the shortage of the vaccines in the country over government’s indebtedness to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the international body that distributes the vaccine across … Read more
Nursing mothers in Ghana would have to wait until next week before having their babies vaccinated against Polio and Measles following the shortage of the vaccines in the country. This because Ghana owed the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the international body that procures the vaccine across the globe, huge sums of money. Confirming the … Read more
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, has backed calls for bonding of trainee nurses by government to be scrapped. Nurses trained in public health institutions are required to work for the government for a specified amount of time, after they graduate, before they are allowed to seek employment with any other … Read more
The Vice President Mahmmud Bawumia has charged the newly constituted Board of Directors of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to resuscitate the scheme. He said the scheme was at a critical stage and needed the full expertise of the Board to improve. “There is so much we want to do within a limited budget. … Read more
Vice- President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has inaugurated a 17-member Board for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) with a call on the members to use their expertise and experience to rescue and resuscitate the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). “We have got to save and resuscitate the NHIS,” he said, adding, “You have got to … Read more
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds and other primary health facilities across the nation are to be digitized to facilitate the deployment of e-health services to enhance the quality of care. Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), said under the initiative, consultants and specialists through mobile health and … Read more
Infanta Malaria Prevention Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization chaired by First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has launched the ‘Reducing Malaria and Malnutrition Initiative’, as parts of efforts to promote interventions and practices that will help address incidents of malaria and malnutrition across the country. The initiative will among other things bring together stakeholders to identify strategies that … Read more
The Ghana Health Service has begun investigations into a scandal that has rocked the Juaso Government Hospital in the Ashanti Region, involving the alleged bloating of the cost of construction of a mortuary, The Chronicle has gathered. The cost of the uncompleted mortuary, which this paper understands is being funded from Internally Generated Funds (IGF), … Read more
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has issued an Ebola alert after the Democratic Republic of Congo reported an Ebola outbreak in the north-east. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as at 14 May 2017, 19 cases had been confirmed with three deaths. To this end, the GHS has issued a directive to all regional … Read more
The Ghana Health Service has issued a cholera alert, warning of a possible widespread outbreak across the country in the coming days. A statement signed and issued by its Director General, Anthony Nsiah-Asare, said considering the pockets of cholera outbreaks early this year and previously in 2014 and 2016, “the risk is further worsened and … Read more
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) has said it had helped to retrieve GH¢61,000 from the Ghana Health Service (GHS), paid to Government through the Ministry of Finance, this week. Dr James Avedzi Klutse, the Chairman of the Committee and Member of Parliament for Ketu North, said the GES had held on to the … Read more
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has indicted the Ghana Health Service (GHS) for failing to pay more than GHC61,000 being proceeds from the auction of nine vehicles into a non-tax revenue account since 2014 as required by the Financial Administration Act . The said amount was hurriedly paid into the account only last … Read more
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has faulted the Ministry of Health for the sale of 25 state vehicles, and over 140 motor cycles in 2014 in a manner that breaches the Financial Administration Regulations. Earlier, the Director General of the Service, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare raised concerns over some of the conclusions in the 2015 … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated the re-constituted 19-member governing board of the Ghana AIDS Commission, with a charge on the members to use their resourcefulness to mobilise the requisite resources for the prosecution of the commission’s “ambitious” five-year national HIV and AIDS strategic plan. The President observed that financial support from friends of … Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare as the new Director-General of the Ghana Health Service with effect from 1st March 2017. A statement issued in Accra by Ms Rebecca Ackwonu, the Public Relations Officer, Ghana Health Service said Dr Nsiah-Asare takes over from Dr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira who had retired from active service. It … Read more
Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare has been appointed Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In a release signed by Rebecca Ackwonu, Public Relations Officer of GHS, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare replaces Dr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira who has retired from active service. Below is the release: H. E. the President of Ghana has … Read more