Cholera Outbreak 2014 – President Mahama Orders Free Public Toilet Use for Kids
President John Mahama has directed operators of public toilets in accra to allow children use their facility free of charge. ...
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The Cholera Outbreak in Accra Is Far from Over, More Than 300 Cholera Cases Are Recorded Each Day in Greater Accra Region Alone
Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service has indicated that the fast killing cholera is far from over ...
Sierra Leone Passes New Ebola Law Making It Illegal To Hide An Ebola Patient
Sierra Leone voted to pass a new amendment to its health act, imposing possible jail time for anyone caught hiding ...
Here’s How Many People Have Died From Cholera So Far
Cholera has killed at least 67 people in Ghana since June and infected more than 5,000 others in an outbreak ...
Korle Bu Doctors Demand Quick Construction of Ebola Isolation Centre
Resident doctors at the Medicine Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital are calling on authorities to expedite action on ...
Ghana Cholera Outbreak At ‘Staggering’ Level, Over 3100 Infected
A cholera outbreak in Ghana's capital has reached "staggering" levels, an official said on Friday, blaming poor sanitation and overcrowded ...
Ghana Armed Forces to Help in Building Ebola Isolation Centres
Field Engineers of the Ghana Armed Forces have been deployed to speed up work on the three designated centers to ...
Suspected Ebola Patient Dies; Care Givers at Risk
Health workers at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital are praying and hoping that a suspected Ebola patient who they attended to ...
Ebola Vaccine To Be Available in 2015 – World Health Organization (WHO)
Clinical trials of vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus should soon get underway and will likely be ready for widespread ...
Sanitation Improves In Accra After Cholera Outbreak
The 10-day ultimatum issued by the Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, to the Accra Metropolitan Assemblies (AMA) and other sanitation ...
Ghana May Now Have Recorded Her First Case of Ebola
A man from neighboring Burkina Faso, who shows symptoms of fever and bled from his nose and ears “was brought ...
Cholera Kills 4 in Ghana and Surges in Cameroon Killing over 75 and infecting some 1,400
The Acting Director of Medical Affairs of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, David Nortey, has described the Cholera outbreak in ...
Shocking Facts: One Newborn Baby Dies in Ghana Every 15 minutes – UNICEF
One newborn child dies every 15 minutes in Ghana with 30,000 newborn deaths recorded each year. This according to a ...