Swine Flu Vaccines Arrive, Citizens To Be Administered Drugs Soonest
Swine Flu Vaccines – Vaccines for the H1N1 flu have arrived the country says the Ministry of Health. The Public ...
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Meningitis Claims 3rd Student In Upper East In A Week!
A suspected case of meningitis has claimed the third final year student at the Upper East Region; this time, a ...
Drugs and Vaccines For Disease En Route To Ghana
Swine Flu – Drugs will be administered to carriers, as well as those quarantined for the endemic swine flu disease. ...
GHS Blames Outbreak On Congestion In Schools
Meningitis in SHSs – Death tolls have continued to rise in schools causing a great sense of fear among parents ...
Bawku SHS: One Student Dies of Meningitis; Five On Admission
At least one student of the Bawku Senior High Technical School has been confirmed dead following what is believe to ...
Ghana’s Response To Emergencies ‘not Serious’ – Fred Agbenyo
Deputy Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress, Fred Agbenyo, has questioned the preparedness of government agencies in responding to ...
Authorities To Close Down KUMACA Indefinitely Over ‘mysterious’ Deaths
The Kumasi Academy is to be closed down indefinitely after three days to allow health officials conduct a thorough environment ...
Meningitis Caused Almost 180 Deaths In Niger Since January
At least 179 people, almost half of them children, have died of meningitis since January in Niger, where some 3,000 ...
Nigeria Meningitis Death Toll Tops 1,000
More than 1,000 people have died in an outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria, the Centre for Disease Control said Thursday, ...
New Malaria Vaccine To Be Tested In Ghana, Kenya, Malawi
A new malaria vaccine will be tested on a large scale in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organization ...
First Large-Scale Malaria Vaccine Trials For Africa
A new malaria vaccine will be tested on a large scale in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organization ...
Garu MP Cries For Hospital
MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Garu Constituency in the Upper East Region, Hon. Albert Alalzuuga Akuka, has called on government ...
Garu MP Cries For Hospital
Member of Parliament (MP) for Garu Constituency in the Upper East Region, Hon. Albert Alalzuuga Akuka, has called on government ...
Meningitis Outbreak Infects Thousands
One of the worst hit areas is Sokoto near the border with Niger At least 300 people have died in ...
MPs Voice Concern Over Growing Meningitis Death Rate
Parliament on Thursday underlined urgent and pragmatic measures for effective check on Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that has hit parts ...
Media Must Desist From Giving Unsubstantiated Statistics On CSM Deaths
Dr Franklin Asiedu Bekoe, the Head of Disease Surveillance at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has cautioned media practitioners to ...
Parliament Expresses Concern Over Outbreak of CSM
Parliament on Thursday underlined urgent and pragmatic measures for effective check on Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM) that has hit parts ...
Type of Meningitis That Killed KUMACA Students Yet To Be Determined – GHS
The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah, says it will take disease researchers at least a week ...
Cause of Mysterious Death of Students Unraveled After Autopsy
Speculations have been ongoing as to the cause of the death of four students of the Kumasi Academy which many ...
Kumasi Academy Shutdown After Meningitis Claims 4 Lives
Authorities of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACAS) have suspended all school activities and sent all the students home. ...