One student of the Damongo Senior High School in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region has been confirmed dead. The student whose name is yet to be revealed, according to the District Chief Executive, Saeed Muhazu, died at about 1:00pm Tuesday while on admission at the Damongo Hospital. Nine other students are currently … Read more
The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has promised to concentrate on it’s efforts in keeping Adolescents safe and in good health by providing unimpeded access to their sexual and Reproductive health services. The Ghana Adolescent Health Program through the Palladium Group, has so far under it’s project, increased the number of the Adolescent Health Corners in … Read more
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) Mp4H (Mobile phone for Health) project has been launched in Sunyani as part of a two-day midwives forum organised by the Brong-Ahafo Regional Health Directorate. The GHS-Mp4H is a private-public partnership between Tech-Valley Gh, an Accra-based Ghanaian health promotion non-governmental organisation and the GHS to provide reliable health care messages … Read more
The Salaga North constituency in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region perhaps is the most deprived constituency among the 275 constituencies in Ghana. The constituency, one of the infant ones in Ghana, was carved out of the Salaga Constituency in 2012. Eight years on, the constituency is far from being called a developing … Read more
GOIL has donated 50 beds with mattresses to the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital in the Upper East Region. The 50 beds, which cost GHC80,000, are to support the regional health directorate to improve universal health care coverage especially maternal and child health care in the region. Speaking at a presentation of the beds to the regional … Read more
Queen mothers in the Ashanti region are considering reintroducing puberty rites to curb the high rate of teenage pregnancies in the region. According to statistics from the regional health directorate, over eighteen thousand (18,000) young girls of school going age were impregnated in the region last year. Reacting to the development, the President of the … Read more
A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant representing 11.4% of all pregnancies last year 2016 A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant representing 11.4% of all pregnancies last year 2016, the Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services Dr. Alexis Nang-Beifubah has announced. Addressing the media at Ashanti Regional Health Directorate under the Gharh project themed … Read more
Kumasi, May 22, GNA – Teenage pregnancy is on a downward trend in the Ashanti Region as the various interventions and intense public education campaign begin to show positive results. A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant, last year, compared with the year 2015 figure of 19,416 and the 20,395 reported in 2014. Dr. Alexis … Read more
The chiefs and youth alleged that the hospital was extorting money from pregnant women: file About seven (7) health workers have been sacked from the Atebubu Government Hospital following rot exposed by the youth of the town. The chiefs and youth alleged that the hospital, under the leadership of Dr. Cornelius Atsu Gligui, has been … Read more
The management of the Atebubu-Amantin Government Hospital is abusing its powers by sanctioning innocent staff, the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has said. The Association’s comments follow the suspension of Charles Badiwon, a senior biomedical scientist at that hospital, for failing to charge a client for services rendered. Although the services rendered were … Read more
The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) has spoken openly for the first time against demands made by doctors in the Upper East region before police medical forms brought before them by victims of sexual violence are endorsed. Such demands, according to the law enforcement agency, go against the Domestic Violence Act and, therefore, … Read more
The Upper West Regional Directorate of Health Services has intensified its screening efforts at identifying persons with Tuberculosis, taking on-board screening of miners in Nadowli District and at Out-Patient Departments of health facilities. Gene Xpert and Digital X-ray equipment have also been installed at the Regional Hospital in Wa to help facilitate screening for the … Read more
The Ashanti Region has been recording an alarming rate of glaucoma cases with over 600 per cent rise between 2014 and 2016. One of the communities most affected is Beposo in the Sekyere Central District, where one out of six residents suffers from vision loss and five per cent of glaucoma patients are not aware … Read more
The Central Regional Red Cross Society in collaboration with the Regional Health Directorate and other stakeholders have intensified efforts to prevent a possible cholera outbreak in the Region this year. As part of the efforts, the Society has distributed 100 hand washing buckets, soap and detergents to communities, schools, public toilets and other public places … Read more
Sydney Ageyomah Abilba, an employee of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), who was cited by a senior medical officer at the Upper East Regional Hospital as a “protégé and spy” for Dr. Kofi Issah, the Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, has refuted the claims made against him. The medical officer had stated in … Read more
37 maternal deaths were recorded in the Upper East Region in 2016, according to the regional health directorate. The region recorded 37 maternal deaths in 2011, 38 deaths in 2012, and 34 in 2013. In 2014 and 2015, the region recorded 47 and 30 maternal deaths respectively. Even though the maternal mortality ratio stands at … Read more
The Upper East Region recorded a total of 5,587 adolescent pregnancies representing 15.4% for the year 2016, with 2.1%occurring among adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years, making the region, the highest in teenage pregnancy. According to a Ghana Health Service report on Antenatal care registrants for 2016, 115 pregnancy cases were recorded … Read more
The Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Director of Public Health, Dr Osei Kuffour Afreh has expressed concerns over a possible outbreak of cholera in the region. According to him,his concerns are due to the high possibility of most river bodies, streams, wells and boreholes being contaminated due to the water crisis that has hit parts of … Read more
Public health facilities throughout the Northern Region have been directed to cough out a stated amount towards the retirement of the outgoing Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira investigations by mynewsgh.com have uncovered. The situation comes at a time these health facilities are reeling over huge debts because the National … Read more
The maternal mortality rate in the Western Region increased from 75 per cent in 2015 to 92 per cent in 2016, due mainly to pregnancy-related complications including post-partum haemorrhage (excessive bleeding), hypertension and unsafe abortion. Consequently, the regional health directorate has met with stakeholders to discuss the high incidence of maternal deaths in the region … Read more