HEALTH

According to a report MynewsGhana.net sighted on 3 News, a chief pharmacist at the Cocoa Clinic in Accra, Edward Amporful, is encouraging the consumption of raw cocoa powder to help boost the immune system and defend the body against the novel coronavirus. Health experts have said strong immune system is …

About four hundred (400) people have been infected with a new strain of meningitis in the northern part of Ghana. 40 out of the 400 has been reported dead.  meningitis is explained as an infection that affects the delicate membranes — called meninges — that cover the brain and spinal cord. You or …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the 198 new Coronavirus cases announced Saturday are not new infections. It explained that the record 198 new cases, which have seen the country’s case count jump from 641 to 834, are from a backlog of samples currently at the various laboratory testing centres. “The general …

Parliament has approved the nomination of Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye for the position of a Deputy Minister of Health. The approval comes follows recommendations by Parliament’s Appointments Committee by consensus after he appeared before it on Wednesday, 15th April 2020. Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Joe Osei Owusu, read the committee’s …

Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Shi Ting Wang has said that the government of China will intiate investigations into the alleged attacks on Africans in China. Many videos flooded social media to confirm the reports. Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Chinese Ambassador on the situation and the Chinese ambassador …

Environment Health Officials at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly have raised concerns over six Covid-19 bodies that have been left unattended to at various morgue dues to the lack of training and PPEs to handle the bodies. According to them, bodies of infectious diseases are meant to be buried within 72-hours …

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has received a notification through the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Surveillance and Monitoring System for substandard and falsified chloroquine in the WHO region of Africa. These chloroquine products with different presentations are confirmed as falsified on the basis that they deliberately or fraudulently …

Four more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Ashanti region bringing the region’s total number to 53. The Ashanti Region Health Directorate has indicated it is yet to add the four new cases to the five hundred and sixty-six which is registered on government’s official portals. Disclosing the …

Professional nurses under the Heal Ghana Module of Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) have petitioned the government and Ghana Health Service to enrol them as full-time staff. According to them, the exposure as health workers during this Coronavirus pandemic exposes them to the potential risk of contracting the virus. They, therefore, urged the …

‘As we mourn the dead from COVID-19, meningitis is reported to have killed 37 people in the Upper West Region, out of hundreds who have contracted the illness’ these were the words of former President, John Dramni Mahama as a reminder to government on the urgent need for action. According …