The Deputy Health Minister Dr Victor Bampoe says the Africa Development Bank has earmarked $60m for countries affected by the Ebola virus. A further $150 million is available by way of loans and grants to non-ebola affected countries in the sub-region. Dr Bampoe told Joy News the amount is part of efforts in galvanising resources … Read more
A doctor in Port Harcourt who treated a primary contact of Nigeria’s patient zero for the Ebola outbreak has died from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The death of doctor has been confirmed by the Nigerian Minister for Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu. The widow of the doctor who passed away is also exhibiting symptoms of the … Read more
The Nigerian Government has announced the successful containment of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Onyebuchi Chukwu, minister of health, who made this known in a statement by Dan Nwomeh, special assistant on media and communication to the minister, said that Nigeria had thirteen cases of EVD including the index case, Patrick Saywer, the late … Read more
The government has given the go ahead to public and private universities to re-open their institutions for the 2014/2015 academic year with effect from August 27, 2014. A statement issued in Accra today and signed by the Minister of Education (MoE), Professor Naana Opoku Agyeman, said the decision was taken following a meeting between the … Read more
The American doctor, Dr Kent Brantly, who was receiving treatment at Emory’s University Hospital after contracting Ebola is scheduled to be released today, August 21, 2014. The doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia on a humanitarian mission will be officially discharged from the the hospital, after successfully recuperating from the disease while on … Read more
Ghana could be forced to ban flights from Ebola affected countries once the spillover rate becomes threatening in West Africa. Kenya has already banned flights from Sierra Leone and Liberia as a precautionary measure to prevent the haemorrhagic fever – that has killed 1,200 people – from entering their territory. Ghana has announced preventive measures, … Read more
A Virologist at the Ghana Veterinary Service, Dr. Joseph Adongo-Awuni has cautioned the public to place equal emphasis on the animal to human mode of transmitting the Ebola virus. “We are still at risk, the human to human control is excellent, but it is important to let the general public know of the second risk … Read more
Fear and ignorance have become obtrusive elements stymieing governmental and international efforts in the fight against the current pervasive West African Ebola Epidemic. In Ghana, there have been rumors circulating that the government is in cahoots with the hospitals, pharmacies and the Noguchi Memorial Institute Research Institute to cover-up positive tests from suspected cases. Although … Read more
There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia was looted. An angry mob attacked the centre in the city’s densely populated West Point township on Saturday evening. A senior health official said all of the patients were being moved to another … Read more
The first Nigerian Ebola patient has been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emergency Operation Centre, EOC, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos. News of the discharge of the unnamed female doctor, who was one of the primary contacts of the late American-Liberian Patrick Sawyer, was broken, yesterday evening, by Minister of Health, Prof. … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said between 12 and 13 August, a total of 152 new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 76 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. A statement issued by the WHO and copied to the Ghana News Agency … Read more
The government of Ghana has refused a request by Sierra Leone’s national team to play its 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against DR Congo in Accra next month. CAF instructed countries being attacked by the Ebola virus to find venues away from their respective countries for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations’ qualifying series. … Read more
According to the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kasoa, Adam Nuhu, tests conducted on blood samples of two persons suspected to have Ebola have proved negative. There were reports that the Kasoa Polyclinic had recorded two suspected Ebola cases on Tuesday, but Adam Nuhu says the two were suffering from cholera. Kasoa has recorded about … Read more
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), some foreign nationals who have sojourned in Ghana have disclosed some of the procedural lapses by Ghana’s Immigration Service (GIS) while securing the border against Ebola. These foreign nationals who travel by road, report that along Ghana’s borders there are no medical screenings of travelers seeking … Read more
Despite the continuous public health education about how to recognize the symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease, the debilitating effects of virus, mode of transmission, its prevalence, and how to reduce the the probability of being infected, ignorance and fear still persists within several West African communities. We would like to commend Frank Donga and … Read more
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who form the first medical response team at the epicenters of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa are being infected and dieing from the disease. The loss of these essential healthcare workers to the Ebola outbreak is putting added pressure on the remaining staff, who are now compelled to … Read more
Shama, a fishing community in Ghana’s Western Region with a population of close to 24,000 could possibly become one of the epicenters of an Ebola outbreak in Ghana. The fishermen of Shama have made several excursion in the last few months to and from Liberia, which is currently reeling under a broken healthcare system due … Read more
The medical health personnel on staff at some of Ghana’s hospitals have expressed growing resentment about the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) selection of certain health centers in the country as designated isolation centers. One of the hospitals whose authorization as a government approved isolation center, which has raised grave concern is the Komfo Anokye Teaching … Read more
The inter-ministerial Committee on Ebola is expected to meet today to review strategies on preventing the entry of the deadly virus into the country. The committee was set up to institute measures to secure the country’s boarders against persons who may enter the country carrying the virus and also prepare for a possible outbreak. It … Read more
Reports say three persons have been isolated at the Nsawam Government hospital in the Eastern Region for supposedly showing signs of the Ebola attack. MultiTV’s Matilda Womegah, who visited the hospital, said blood samples of the patients have been taken for medical testing at the Noguchi Memorial Institute. Among the patients is a 16-year-old girl … Read more