Health

  The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service, says 174 pregnant women lost their lives in 2021 during child birth in the region.   Out of the 174 deaths, 11 were due to unsafe abortion complications.   According to the health directorate, one of the biggest challenges …

  The Tafo Government Hospital in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, has denied claims that a student nurse turned into crocodile at the facility.   It follows rumours that a pregnant staff nurse collapsed after the student nurse transmogrified into the green reptile.   According to reports, the student nurse had been …

World Health Organisation (WHO) says the recent monkeypox outbreaks are unusual because they are occurring in countries where the virus is not endemic.   It said, more cases were likely to be reported in the coming days as surveillance expands, in the Global Health Agency, said.     Monkeypox is …

A Physiotherapist at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital has reiterated why standing during sex cause stroke. While acknowledging, “sex is good”, Dr Hussein Botchway, is however cautioning against certain sex positions since they had the potential of causing certain health complications such as hypertension and stroke.   He noted however that, …

Moderna has joined forces with non-profit organisation IAVI on a third phase 1 trial of its candidate HIV vaccine in Africa, where the burden of the virus is still being keenly felt.   IAVI (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) has started screening subjects to be included in the study, called …

Global health Scientist, Dr. Richard Eghan, has stated that Red wine helps to “turn people on to have sex”.   According to him, a lot of people do not have the desire to have sex, so the wine which contains certain chemicals is taken in to help give some form …

The Deputy Minister of Finance and who doubles as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ejisu Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Dr. John Ampomtuah Kumah has organised a health walk and free health screening exercise to keep members of the party active ahead of the December …

West Regional Youth Parliament with funding support from Plan International Ghana has revealed that 83 percent of adolescent girls sleep with men to secure monies for basic needs including sanitary pads in the Wa East District of the Upper West region. The study was on the topic; “Adolescent Sexual and …

The Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association has shown of a crosscountry showing should the public power won’t pay them their nine-months settlement which is financially past due.   To this end, the Association has given a multi day last idea to the public circumstance to settle every one of …

Ghana is currently, seeing an increase in the migration of professional nurses to high-income countries due to the global shortage of nurses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.     The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare said the trend was quiet worrying as it amounts to a massive …