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Nutrition, hygiene crucial to good health-QuashigahThe Minister of Health, Major Courage Quashigah (rtd), says preventing ill health through good nutrition and hygiene was as important as curative measures such as the adequate supply of drugs and availability of health personnel and facilities.
Source : Hi Ghana | 06-Jun-2007 17:41
NHIS draws up 5-year plan
For the first time in four years, a five year plan has been created to ensure the continual implementation and efficiency of the National Health Insurance Council since its establishment.
Source : Hi Ghana | 06-Jun-2007 17:40
60,000 members registered with West Akyem NHIS
The West Akim District Chief Executive, Kwabena Sintim-Aboagye has pleaded with service providers of the National Health Insurance Scheme to show understanding and be patient with the scheme whenever there was a delay in the payment of medical bills.
Source : Hi Ghana | 24-May-2007 14:19
MPs caution on contradictions in anti-HIV/AIDS messages
Members of Parliament have drew attention to the inherent contradiction in anti-HIV/AIDS messages vis-à-vis the impact that such messages must have on the drive to reduce or totally do away with stigmatisation of HIV positive persons.
Source : Hi Ghana | 23-May-2007 12:13
Price of AIDS drugs to go down
The World Health Organization has welcomed the decision of Abbott Laboratories to significantly reduce the price of an anti-retroviral drug, lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r).
Source : Hi Ghana | 19-Apr-2007 23:30
Defiant health workers fear for their lives
A strike by health workers in the Greater Accra Region has been largely ignored with many nurses and paramedics opting to care for patients.
Source : Hi Ghana | 09-Mar-2007 17:34
Africa Environment Day launched
Mr Frank Agyekum, Government Spokesman on Governance, on Friday urged Ghanaians to guard the environment in order to save the nation's future generation.
Source : Hi Ghana | 04-Mar-2007 16:04
Health workers cautioned against strike
The information, if accurate, would be unfortunate indeed because the ministry in particular and government have made the extra effort to enhance the salaries of all health workers
Source : Hi Ghana | 04-Mar-2007 15:56
Crew of Mercy Ship resource Tema Poly Clinic
The crewmembers of Mercy Ship, a charitable organization worldwide, have constructed a multi-modern maternity ward for the Tema Polyclinic at the cost of nearly 120,000 dollars.
Source : Hi Ghana | 21-Feb-2007 12:29
Bird Flu Cull Goes On
The culling of over 150,000 birds at a farm in Suffolk is being completed this morning in an attempt to stop the spread of avian flu. The turkeys have been gassed at the Bernard Matthews site near Lowestoft, where the H5N1 strain of the virus was found.
Source : Hi Ghana | 05-Feb-2007 10:24
NHIS Threatened At Ho
Clients of the Ho Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Scheme are being given prescriptions for branded drugs allegedly by doctors at health centres instead of generic ones prescribed by the scheme.
Source : Hi Ghana | 19-Jan-2007 12:11
Korle-Bu to decongest
Accra - The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Wednesday announced it has suspended the admission of new patients to the Surgical; Medical and Emergency Units of the Hospital until Sunday, January 21, 2007.
Source : Hi Ghana | 19-Jan-2007 11:05
Doctors Face Probe
A number of doctors in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis are to be probed for allegations of extortion under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Source : Hi Ghana | 19-Jan-2007 10:57
Team Set To Negotiate Health Workers' Salaries
A team to negotiate conditions of services of health sector employees has been inaugurated in Accra.
Source : Hi Ghana | 18-Jan-2007 12:35
Checkpoint delays expose drivers to HIV/AIDS
Aflao - Delays experienced by traders and travelers across borders in West Africa has been cited as a major impediment to the World Bank supported fight against the HIV/AIDS in border communities.
Source : Hi Ghana | 17-Jan-2007 19:25
Kufuor directs Minister to submit report on guinea-worm situation
Sunyani (B/A) - President John Agyekum Kufuor has directed the Health Minister to submit to him a report on the guinea worm infestation situation in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
Source : Hi Ghana | 17-Jan-2007 00:52
Ambulances For 9 Northern Districts
NINE district assemblies in the Northern Region have received ambulances from the Ministry of Health.
Source : Hi Ghana | 15-Jan-2007 12:52
Ghanaians urged to embrace NHIS
Asamankese (E/R) - The Founder and Leader of Christ Compassion Ministry International (CCMI), Apostle Joel Kofi Ayim, has described the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) as the best health delivery system the nation has ever adopted since independence.
Source : Hi Ghana | 15-Jan-2007 09:51
Bird flu returns to Nigeria farms
Poultry are still being moved, despite the official ban New cases of bird flu have been recorded on two farms in north-western Nigeria, officials say, a year after the disease was first found there.
Source : Hi Ghana | 11-Jan-2007 21:46
Source : Hi Ghana | 11-Jan-2007 21:32
Vegetables Pose Health Hazards
STREET foods, consumed regularly by low income residents of towns because of pressure of time, are a source of great potential danger to health Prof. Jacob Sangsore, Dean of the School of Research and Graduate Studies, has said.
Source : Hi Ghana | 11-Jan-2007 14:10
Do away with stigmatization
Accra - Stigmatisation should be strongly fought to help to reduce the HIV prevalence to the barest minimum, Professor Fred Sai, Presidential Adviser on HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health, said on Wednesday.
Source : Hi Ghana | 11-Jan-2007 09:57
Launch of interactive Ecosystem website
Accra - The Water Resources Commission would launch an interactive website for Ecosystems Management in Africa to help in the preservation of some of the country's fast depleting freshwater biodiversity.
Source : Hi Ghana | 10-Jan-2007 10:42
WHO chief names Ghanaian as deputy
GENEVA - Dr. Margaret Chan, the new director-general of the World Health Organization, appointed a Ghanaian as her deputy Tuesday.
Source : Hi Ghana | 10-Jan-2007 00:13
170 Babies To Test New Malaria Vaccine
The Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) is to recruit 170 babies at birth for the second phase of the Malaria Vaccine Trial now ongoing in the Kintampo North and South districts of the Brong-Ahafo Region.
Source : Hi Ghana | 09-Jan-2007 19:40
Ghanaians Eager For Ban On Smoking In Public Places
Fifty-eight-year-old Ghanaian civil servant Kwaku Anku has been a smoker for over 40 years. Despite knowing the dangers of cigarettes, he has no intention of kicking the habit. After all, he says, his grandfather was a smoker and he lived to the ripe old age of 84.
Source : Hi Ghana | 08-Jan-2007 11:35
Pass Law To Ban Smoking In Public Places — Akosa
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, has urged Cabinet to immediately forward to Parliament for passage into law, the bill which seeks to ban smoking in public places.
Source : Hi Ghana | 28-Dec-2006 05:46
East Gonja Youth Sensitized On HIV
THE youth have been urged to guard themselves against the HIV/AIDS since the disease has no cure once it is contracted.
Source : Hi Ghana | 28-Dec-2006 05:39