Dr Benjamin Kofi Angenu, Medical Director of the Forever Champion Health Centre, has called on the public to refrain from self-medication and seek proper medical care at health facilities.

He noted that the situation where some people, due to poverty…

Kaysens Group in collaboration with Kwaaba Foundation has held its seventh edition of ‘March-March Blood Donation Awareness Walk’ with Green Giving to double the impact of saving lives.

The ‘Green Giving’ initiative saw donors receive a fruit seedlin…

The Glaucoma Group of the Ophthalmological Society of Ghana has urged the public to use only approved methods and medications for treating glaucoma.

It said most traditional medicines paraded as remedies for glaucoma only damaged the eye or worsened …

Glaucoma has caused blindness of over 45,000 people in Ghana, making the country the highest with Glaucoma infections in Africa.

Data from the Ghana Health Service show that Glaucoma accounts for over 19 per cent of all blindness in the country.

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The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) in collaboration with the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has held refresher training for fifty media practitioners on HIV-related human rights, stigma, and discrimination.

The two-day training held at Peduase in t…

A total of 142,347 vulnerable people comprising of 76,867 females, 16,987 children, and 65,480 male parents, from three regions in the northern Ghana are to benefit from a five-year project on improving nutrition.

The Project, dubbed: ‘Championing Nu…

A two-day workshop has been held in Tamale to train community advocates, mentors, and school patrons, to campaign and increase visibility on issues of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).

Participants were drawn from various schools and …

The National Taskforce of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is preparing to disconnect approximately 10 Hospitals in the Eastern Region from the national grid, due to outstanding arrears owed to the power distributor.

The Ghana News Agency (GNA)…

The management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi is engaging with the leadership of the medical doctors in the facility to resolve issues which have led to a strike action at the facility.

Doctors of the Hospital on Wednesday, Ma…

Mr Alexander Kwasi Acquah, a Deputy Health Minister-Designate, advocated the setting up of clinics at marketplaces as part of efforts to bring healthcare services to the doorstep of the people.

‘To have clinics in various markets because a lot of peo…