Health authorities have declared cholera outbreak in the Cape Coast metropolis in the Central Region as scores of residents have contracted the disease within a week. Of the 54 cases reported at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Hospital within the week, a total of 36 have tested positive of the cholera bacterium, and authorities … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has stated that although he is unaware about a recent threat by staff of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to strike following the numerous challenges facing the facility, he is committed to resolve the issues to improve mental health delivery. The Hospital has in recent times been battling with a number of … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has said he is unaware of the challenges facing the management and staff of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. The Hospital has in recent times been battling with a number of challenges that compelled it to among other things close its Out Patient Department (OPD). The situation forced suppliers of the facility … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that he is unaware of the strike action being embarked on by the nurses of the Accra Psychiatric hospital. The president who was speaking on Sunrise radio in the Eastern region on Tuesday told the host, he was yet to be informed about the current impasse that has compelled … Read more
The woman began to grumble and talk at the nurses in an impolite manner. I raised my head, looked at her and shook it speechlessly. A colleague nurse attempted to put forward a defence by responding to her but I signaled him to stop. I don’t really fancy helping patients to create a scene. The … Read more
Prostate cancer kills 26 Nigerian men daily and this is unacceptable! Through combining our knowledge of prostate cancer with that of our peers in Ghana, and the rest of the world, we’re getting to grips with how prostate cancer evolves, what it looks like at a molecular level, and how as a disease it can … Read more
Men’s Health Foundation Nigeria: We’re here to stop prostate cancer being a Killer in Nigeria We can stop prostate cancer being a Killer. This is a Man and the Prostate is part of all men 1 in 4 black men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime It can strike any man And affect the … Read more
The Mental Health Authority has ordered management of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital to discharge more than 300 patients on admission at the facility. Nurses at the hospital started an indefinite strike today in protest at the indecent conditions at work and government’s failure to provide them with basic supplies. This action follows a similar decision … Read more
As October being the Breast Cancer Awareness month, the awareness campaign does an awful lot of good. But there is much more you can do to actively reduce your risk of breast cancer, without harming your body or increasing your risk for any disease or illness. This is what you have to do to reduce … Read more
Dr. Klein is Chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, the nation’s No. 2 urology program as ranked by U. S. News & World Report. He has this to say on the PSA test. When I was training to be a urologist in the 1980s, the PSA blood test we now use to … Read more
Prostate Specific Antigen, or PSA for short, is a protein that is produced by prostate cells. The PSA increases as men age, when the prostate enlarges or becomes inflamed and when prostate cancer is present. There are also transient bumps in PSA after digital rectal exam (DRE), ejaculation, and bike riding. PSA is prostate specific … Read more
This test may be able to spot fast growing cancers The Prostate Specific Antigen test, also known as PSA velocity, has been used extensively around the world to detect and monitor prostate cancer. For many years, physicians have been using the absolute value of PSA to determine a man’s risk for prostate cancer or whether … Read more
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have started a full-blown strike today, Monday 31 October. It follows what they describe as “fruitless” dialogue between them and the authorities. Below is their full statement STAYING AWAY FROM DANGEROUS WORKING ENVIRONMENT Following several fruitless attempts by the leadership of the nurses to get a lasting solution to … Read more
Ghana has only 15 neurosurgeons catering for over 25 million Ghanaians, Dr Kafui Tamakloe, a Neurosurgeon at the Cocoa Clinic in Accra has said. Speaking at a health talk organised by the Editors Forum Ghana (EFG) to commemorate their 10th anniversary in Accra on Wednesday, Dr Tamekloe said the few neurosurgical institutions in the country … Read more
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have declared an indefinite strike effective Monday October 31 over what they describe as “dangerous working environment” following attacks on the nurses and other staff of the hospital. The threat had been on for well over a month but according to the nurses, nothing concrete has come from management … Read more
Nurses at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital have declared an indefinite strike effective Monday October 31 over what they describe as “dangerous working environment” following attacks on the nurses and other staff of the hospital. The threat had been on for well over a month but according to the nurses, nothing concrete has come from management … Read more
We find the explanation by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) that the current power outages being experienced across the country are not an indication of a power crisis or the return to “dumsor” very refreshing. Ghanaians who have also been very worried that the power outages were a sign that “dumsor” had returned will … Read more
With an MA in Journalism from Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales backed by a Diploma in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, host of News@10 and News Hour on TV3 and 3FM 92.7 respectively, Stephen Anti has grown to become one of the finest television and radio personalities on our airwaves today. His quick thinking … Read more
A GNA feature by Cecilia Diesob/Deborah Apetorgbor Accra, Oct. 30, GNA – Growing up, many of us have participated in discussions relating to sex. Besides stressing on abstinence, many adults reminded their adolescent wards of their moral and religious obligations with regards to sex. Unfortunately, peer pressure and curiosity has led many amongst the youth … Read more
Fifteen people died of rabies in the Ashanti Region, last year the Regional Director of Veterinary Services Department (VSD) has announced. Dr Albert Kwansah-Filson said the figure could be higher as “many cases in the communities are not reported”. He put the number of cases of the preventable viral disease transmitted through the bite of … Read more