Asthma is a non-communicable disease (non-contagious disease) that affects the breathing tubes (the airways within the lungs). It can have significant impact on affected individuals.
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has been presented with an internally centralised medicine cold room to promote the long-term storage of drugs, especially COVID-19 vaccines, maintain the appropriate temperature and ensure good health.
Aurum Institute in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, has launched a new Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy (TPT) drug at the Agomanya St Martin’s de Porres Catholic Hospital in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region.
The Medical Director of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Dr Emmanuel Srofenyo, has called on the public to utilise a telemedicine application deployed to enable patients to have access to health care at the facility without visiting the premises.
Over 7,000 children in the Jaman South municipality in the Bono Region have received the first dose of the RTS malaria vaccine currently being rolled out in 42 districts across the country.
A new health facility named Classic Diagnostic & Medical Clinic at Agbogba in the Ga East municipality, at the weekend opened officially to the public, with managers promising the best of healthcare for clients, near and far.
The risk of surface transmission of Covid-19 is low, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. Far more important is airborne transmission - and people who obsessively disinfect surfaces may be doing more harm than good.
The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana Limited has donated a variety of sanitary ware and assorted beverages to staff of the Teshie Community Clinic at Teshie, near Accra.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has vaccinated about 800,000 Ghanaians against COVID-19 since the rollout of the mass vaccination exercise across the country on March 2, 2021.
About 480 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the Northern Regional Health Directorate have gone waste due to the Directorate’s inability to exhaust its supply of vaccines at the close of the vaccination exercise on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
The country can prevent up to 5,500 premature deaths with improvements in air quality, while increased physical activity such as cycling and brisk walking over the next 35 years can prevent additional 33,000 premature deaths, a new report by the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
The Ghana Police Hospital will on Friday, March 26, shutdown some its departments to allow for a fumigation exercise as part of measures in the fight against the Coronavirus disease.
A globally recognised Ghanaian scientist, Emerita Professor Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi, has enjoined the people not to relegate or replace the COVID-19 preventive protocols with vaccines but continue to strictly adhere to the safety protocols.
The Management of the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua has clarified that it has not detained some 246 patients at a go for failure to pay their bills during admission.
The Republic of Korea, through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has donated 200,000 pieces of N95 face masks to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to help frontline health workers to protect themselves from becoming infected with the COVID-19.
The founder and Apostle General of Royalhouse Chapel International, Most Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah on Tuesday led a delegation of pastors and church leaders to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the Ridge Hospital in Accra.
