The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ministry of Health (MoH), has discredited rumours of an Ebola outbreak in the country. An audio clip circulating on various social media platforms, suggested that the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) was in Ghana, but some government officials wanted to keep it a secret from the public. But a … Read more
The Ghana Health Service has debunked information circulating on social media, suggesting that there is an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Ghana. A statement signed by the Acting Director General Health Service asking the public to ignore the false information contained in an audio recording, said the same audio popped up as far … Read more
The government of Sierra Leone has banned all public celebrations of Christmas and New Year’s as the nation continues to battle the spread of Ebola. Sierra Leone has seen the largest impact from the global health crisis with over 8,000 known cases and 1,900 deaths since winter 2013. In just the last three weeks 1,319 … Read more
(Accra, GNA) – In a communique released by the United States Embassy in Ghana, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is embarking on a five nation tour to further emphasize unbridled commitment by the United States to find a permanent solution to the growing Ebola epidemic. The tour which began on October 25 … Read more
The Ivory Coast, currently free of the Ebola epidemic ravaging its neighbours, has launched a hunt for a Guinean health worker who may have fled his home country after possibly catching the disease. The man apparently took fright after finding out that someone who came to his clinic for treatment had died, possibly of Ebola, … Read more
More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday, out of about 4,000 patients thought to have been infected in the three countries worst hit by the disease. The death toll in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone totalled 2,097 as at Sept 5, out … 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 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
It is with a heavy heart that we report the death of Dr Sheikh Umar Khan, Sierra Leone’s leading virologist in the battle against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). He died under the care of the international aid group Doctors Without Borders who were fighting to save his life. Dr Khan is credited with treating … Read more