Serena Williams Writes: What My Life-Threatening Experience Taught Me About Giving Birth
I almost died after giving birth to my daughter, Olympia. Yet I consider myself fortunate. While I had a pretty ...
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3 Reasons Why You Should Shave Your Pregnant Wife
Regular shaving of the pubic hair is a vital part of prenatal care, but the growing baby bump makes it ...
Group Steps In To Help Reduce Neonatal Deaths
In a bid to stem the high rate of neonatal deaths in the country, a group has educated mothers on ...
Couple Demands Justice, Corpse of Babies Killed By Medical Negligence In 2010
A couple who lost their twin babies at the Tema General Hospital in 2010 as a result of alleged negligence ...
[Video] Perinatal Depression: The Silent Killer Among Women?
Heard of perinatal depression before? Well, it’s a very common disorder amongst women yet very little is known about it. ...
Managers Urged To Ensure Annual Medical Examination of Staff
The Head of the Occupational Health and Safety Department of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, Akofa Adika-Bensah, has called on managers ...
BECE Candidate Gives Birth Moments After ICT Paper
A very determined teenager, who did not want to truncate her schooling due to pregnancy, managed to finish with the ...
Endangered Gorilla Gives Birth To Baby By A Team of Doctors Who Treat Humans
A gorilla at the Philadelphia Zoo has given birth to a healthy baby after a difficult labor that required medical ...
Study Highlights High Death Risk For Africa Twins
One in five children born with a twin sibling in sub-Saharan Africa dies before the age of five -- three ...
The Restoration Journey of Mma Fulera
After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – ...
Giving Birth With Obstetric Fistula; the Story of Samata
A total of thirty four cases have been booked for reconstructive surgery at the Ghana Center for Excellence for Fistula ...
First Lady Rallies Support To Reduce Maternal Deaths
The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo’s Mothers’ Day message highlighted the strides left to be made in order to reduce child ...
Arguments For Maternity Leave Expansion Intensifies
The discussion for an extension of maternity leave for nursing mothers is fast growing among Ghanaian workers as it appears ...
Mrs. Akufo-Addo Raises Funds To Construct Maternity Block At KATH
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has launched a fund-raising event to mobilise 10 million Ghana cedis to build a ...
Ghana Introduced To Framework On Midwifery Services
Ghana is one of the few countries to be introduced to the Midwifery Services Framework (MSF),President of the Ghana Registered ...
Cheap Drug Tackles Death In Childbirth
Severe bleeding after childbirth is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide A cheap drug has been shown to stop ...
Healthcare Providers Undergo Training In Maternal Health Care
The Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), in collaboration with the Latter-Day Saint Charities and the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has organised ...
Women Threaten To ‘boycott’ Child Birth
The women took the decision after more than four pregnant women died enroute to give birth Women at Teselima in ...
Maternal Mortality On the Rise At Tamale Teaching Hospital
The Tamale Teaching Hospital has for three consecutive years, recorded an upsurge in maternal mortality; something authorities have blamed on ...
Family Furious After Dead Baby Goes Missing At Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
The father of the baby said the mortuary attendants have refused to allow him see the body A family is ...