Nurses at Nyonkoko Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in Sherigu, a suburb of Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region, have resorted to abandoning night work, leaving patients to their fate due to lack of electricity. The health workers, numbering about four, who man the facility say they have no option, but to vacate post … Read more
The Government of Ghana has transferred about $10 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the procurement of polio and measles vaccines for the country. This follows the shortage of the vaccines in the country over government’s indebtedness to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the international body that distributes the vaccine across … Read more
Nursing mothers in Ghana would have to wait until next week before having their babies vaccinated against Polio and Measles following the shortage of the vaccines in the country. This because Ghana owed the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the international body that procures the vaccine across the globe, huge sums of money. Confirming the … Read more
Vaccines delivered via a painless, throw-away patch could one day eliminate the need for needle-and-syringe flu injections, researchers said Wednesday after completing a preliminary trial. Equipped with micro-needles, the patches vaccinated against influenza just as effectively as a standard flu jab, they reported in the medical journal The Lancet. “This bandage-strip sized patch of dissolvable … Read more
Red Cross volunteers prevented a significant number of Ebola cases during the 2013-2016 epidemic in West Africa by using safe burial techniques, according to a study released Thursday. The outbreak that killed more than 11,300 people and sickened nearly 29,000 — mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — could have been much worse, according … Read more
The Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (ERCC) and the Regional AIDS Committee have ordered the Centre for Awareness (COA), a food supplement marketing firm to stop all adverts on a cure for HIV/AIDS in the media. The management of COA have also been asked to use the same platform in deceiving the public that it had … Read more
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has issued an Ebola alert after the Democratic Republic of Congo reported an Ebola outbreak in the north-east. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as at 14 May 2017, 19 cases had been confirmed with three deaths. To this end, the GHS has issued a directive to all regional … Read more
Former HIV/AIDS Ambassador Joyce Dzidzor Mensah got the whole country talking about her again when she wrote a bizarre sort of tribute to her husband, who had died after a battle with an illness nobody seems able to identify. The manner of her revelation about her husband’s death, plus another follow up post, are just … Read more
Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against Ebola, which has wiped out tens of thousands of the wild apes in three decades. The vaccine is given orally, the developers said, which means it can be put into food bait and left out for the animals to … Read more
For the same reasons you wouldn’t share a fork with a stranger or, say, lick an ATM, inserting your tongue into someone else’s mouth can set your body up for disaster. Here’s how: 1. IT CAN EXPOSE YOU TO NASTY BACTERIA THAT MAKE YOU FEEL MISERABLE. “Mouths can serve as a transmission route for germs … Read more
The Jirapa District Health Directorate detected one suspected measles and two yellow fever cases in 2016. Specimen from the patients had been sent to Accra for testing and results yet to be received, Madam Phoebe Balagumyetime, the Jirapa District Director of Health Services, said at the 2016 annual performance review meeting. She announced that during … Read more
The Jirapa District Health Directorate detected one suspected measles and two yellow fever cases in 2016. Specimen from the patients had been sent to Accra for testing and results yet to be received, Madam Phoebe Balagumyetime, the Jirapa District Director of Health Services, said at the 2016 annual performance review meeting. She announced that during … Read more