Director of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital Removed To Appease Staff
Dr. Eugene Dordoye has been removed as the medical director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, a decision taken by the ...
Tag: Health in Ghana
Ankaful Psychiatric Nurses To Boycott Meeting With Health Minister
Staff of Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital who are on a collision course with their director say they will boycott a scheduled ...
WhatsApp Platform Helps To Reduce Maternal Mortality
The usage of WhatsApp, a social media platform, has contributed to the effort of reducing institutional maternal mortality from 145 ...
Support NHIA With 1% Of Your Earnings – NHIA CEO To Labour
The Chief Executive Officer for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Dr. Samuel Annor has called on Labour Unions to ...
NHIS To Cover Prostrate and Child Cancers
Health Minister Dr. Kwaku Agyeman Manu says the government hopes to find resources for the National Health Insurance Scheme to ...
SONA 2018: NHIS Funding Stirs Debate Between Majority, Minority
Reactions are sharply divided between the Majority and Minority on the president’s State of the Nation address. Key amongst the ...
USAID Supports Transformation of Private Maternity Homes In Ghana
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners have celebrated the transformation of private maternity homes in ...
Committee of Experts To Promote Medical Tourism Inaugurated
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) Council, on Tuesday inaugurated a five-member Committee of Experts to promote medical tourism to enhance ...
ICU To Storm Parliament Over 1% NHIS Levy Increment
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has served notice it would petition Parliament over the National Health Insurance Authority’s ...
TUC Tasks NHIA To Come Out With Innovative Strategies To Sustain Scheme
The Ghana Trades Union Congress has warned the current system of financing the National Health Insurance Scheme could lead to ...
Regent of Dagbon Vows To Protect Rights of Mental Health Patients
The Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya Naa Andani Yakubu has called for the immediate inclusion of mental illness in the National ...
Prof Akosa Calls For Research Into Health Implications of Galamsey
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, former Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has called for research into the health ...
Levy Alcohol To Fund NHIS
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made a proposal to government to levy tobacco and alcohol to fund the ...
GHA Cautioned Against Cholera Outbreak
Ghana Public Health Association (GPHA) has urged the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to immediately roll out preparedness and response plans ...
NDC Can’t Be Blamed For NHIS Debt – Alex Segbefia
The immediate past Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia, has said his administration will not accept responsibility for the current woes ...
Minister Not Sure When Arrears Owed NHIS Providers Would Be Paid
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has admitted he is not in position to assure NHIS service providers when ...
I’m Uncertain When NHIS Arrears Will Be Cleared
The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has told Parliament, he is unsure when arrears of the National Health Insurance Scheme ...
Nurses Hit Streets With ‘Yegye Y’asaase Demo
Three days after a sit-down strike, staff and student nurses of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in the Greater Accra Region yesterday ...
Pantang Staff Begin Sit-Down Strike; Threaten To Hit Streets If…
Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital have begun an industrial action, which will see workers not doing any work though ...
Gov’t To Organise Stakeholders’ Forum On Health Insurance
Government is to hold a national stakeholders forum to find sustained solutions to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Minister ...