Health

The Board Chair of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Titus Beyuo, has revealed that the hospital’s functional bed capacity has dropped to about 1,500, citing broken and unreplaced beds as a key challenge. His comments come in the wake of a viral…
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The Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has performed a surgical operation that is aimed at restoring the hearing ability of five persons aged between seven months and 20 years. Known as cochlear implant…
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The Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has revealed that the government has procured 10 new AI-enabled digital X-ray systems and 15 GeneXpert machines to enhance the country’s fight against tuberculosis (TB). Speaking at…
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Dr Mrs Alberta Bondzi-Simpson, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism at the University of Cape Coast, has urged Ghanaians battling gastric disorders to consider consuming the locally prepared meal, kokonte, to support…
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Emergency medicine residents at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) have rejected claims by hospital management disputing the state of emergency care at the facility, insisting that recent footage showing patients being treated on the…
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The Korle Bu Doctors Association (KODA) has raised serious concerns over worsening conditions at the Accident and Emergency Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, warning that overcrowding is putting both patients and healthcare workers…
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Member of Parliament for the Garu constituency, Dr Thomas Anaba, has sounded the alarm over a sharp rise in pneumonia cases in the township, linking the increase to dusty and incomplete road projects in the area. Speaking on Channel One…
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The Merck Foundation, with Africa’s first ladies and ministries of health, is continuing to build and advance cancer care capacity through their Cancer Access Program, with the aim to increase the limited number of oncologists in Africa.…
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A physician specialist and nephrology fellow, Dr Mensah Amoah, has warned that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is becoming a major public health concern in Ghana, with an estimated 13 per cent of the adult population, about four million…
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The Ministry of Health has announced that it has secured financial clearance from the Ministry of Finance to pay allowances and salaries for 14,279 rotation nurses and midwives, as well as 637 medical and dental house officers. The…
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