The Ministry of Health has received financial clearance to recruit 4,000 private medical practitioners to work in public health facilities in the country. Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, Robert Cudjoe, who revealed this to TV3’s Daniel Opoku on Monday, said “…the possibility that these people will be engaged in the next few months I … Read more
The Ministry of Health has said that fulfilling the demands of health professionals who picket does not put them in a subservient position. The Deputy Minister of Health, Tina Mensah, made this known after the ministry released the financial clearance of Bonded Unposted Allied Health Professionals who had picketed and spent the night there on … Read more
A group of health professionals who picketed at the Health Ministry have called off their two-day protest after receiving financial clearance by the ministry. The group made up of unposted Allied Health Professionals, Health Assistants and Community Nurses and Private Accredited Nurses kept vigil at the ministry’s premises for two nights before receiving clearance for … Read more
The management and staff of Greenhills School of Health Science (GSHS), a private health training institution in Accra, have paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary, Professor Kwesi Yankah in Accra. Led by the founder of GSHS, Rev. Dr. Charles Antwi-Boasiako, management also informed the Minister on how the school … Read more
The management and staff of Greenhills School of Health Science (GSHS), a private health training institution in Accra, have paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary, Professor Kwesi Yankah in Accra. Led by the founder of GSHS, Rev. Dr. Charles Antwi-Boasiako, management also informed the Minister on how the school … Read more
Head of Surgical Unit at the refurbished Ridge Hospital says the resplendent edifice is a source of attraction to expatriate medical practitioners. Ralph Armah said both workers and patients are now happy to move into the facility and provide the needed services since the perennial problem of shortage of bed no longer exists. “For us, … Read more
Deputy Minister of Health Tina Mensah has assured members of the Coalition of Bonded Unposted Allied Health Professionals that government will address issues concerning their employment “within a week” from the day of picketing. Members of the group embarked on a protest and decided to picket at the Ministry of Health (MoH) to register their … Read more
The Deputy Minister for Health, Tina Mensah, has assured unposted Allied Health Professionals that the ministry is working on their financial clearance which will be ready in a week’s time. Briefing the angry health professionals at the premises of the Ministry of Health where they were picketing, the deputy minister mentioned that the Ministry will … Read more
A group of 500 Health Professionals are expected to picket at the Health ministry today over delays in posting them. According to the Coalition, comprising of Health Professionals from the College of Health in Kintampo and the the School of Dispensing Optics in Oyoko,this has become necessary because several calls made to government to get … Read more
Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, the Minister of Health, has reiterated government’s commitment to work to improve healthcare delivery in the country to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets on health by 2030. He said government had worked collectively to create safe and supportive environment, ensure access to appropriate information and ensure that health facilities provided … Read more
The United Nations of Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is demanding healthcare and financial accountably into the operational activities of the Ministry of Health announcing a cut in aid to the sector. Ghana’s healthcare donor partner is requesting detailed accounts of financial resources the government receives to facilities healthcare delivery in the country. “Ghana is now a … Read more
The day after Nepal was struck by a devastating earthquake, Samrat Basnet opened his doors to the wounded as hospitals overwhelmed with thousands of victims had to send away those without life-threatening injuries. Two years on Basnet is still caring for a handful of the 22,000 Nepalis injured in the disaster, many left with preventable … Read more
Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu, the Minister of Health has launched an improved facilitating technology known as the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS2) Dashboard, for programme tracking and improving cause of death statistics. The DHIMS, which was first deployed by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in 2012, had been used for the collection and analysing … Read more
The Nursing and Midwifery Council, has launched its maiden journal dubbed: “The Numid Horizon, An International Journal of Nursing and Midwifery,” which features articles on health issues. The journal provides Nursing and Midwifery practitioners with continuing education in academic and clinical science to support informed decision making, and educate practitioners about the values and processes … Read more
The Ghana Health Service has resumed recruitment of trainee nurses to serve in various health facilities in the country. This comes almost a year after suspending the process across the country. A letter addressed to all regional health directors in the country from the Service on Monday, March 20 said the Minister of Health, Kwaku … Read more
Stakeholders in the health sector have expressed worry about the proliferation of unqualified health personnel in health facilities, saying the situation is a major setback to the quality of healthcare delivery. They have, therefore, called on the Ministry of Health (MoH) to take pragmatic steps to strengthen and enforce existing regulations to sanitise the system. … Read more
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) with funding from the Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative (BDHI) has launched a one year maiden Verbal Autopsy project in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. The Verbal Autopsy project will deploy the use of the World Health Organization Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire to collect data on all deaths … Read more
The Ghana Mental Health Authority has appealed to government to commit resources to funding mental health care, by employing mental health professionals to improve the country’s worsening mental health situation. According to the Deputy Director of Community Care at the Authority, Mrs. Priscilla Tawiah Elikplim, regular funding of mental health and recruitment of clinical psychologists and … Read more
Dr Justus Deikumah, a Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, has said the training of health professionals should be expanded to increase access to more qualified applicants. He said: “There is no doubt that if we are to improve the standard of living of our people then we must improve health care, let us, … Read more
Dr Justus Deikumah, a Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, has said the training of health professionals should be expanded to increase access to more qualified applicants. He said: “There is no doubt that if we are to improve the standard of living of our people then we must improve health care, let us, … Read more