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JUST IN: Fire outbreak at Korlebu Teaching Hospital [ VIDEO]

Video posted by a staff of the Korlebu Teaching Hospital indicates that there is a fire outbreak at the Hospital. According to the narration on the video, the staff of the Hospital are currently trying their best to evacuate the babies from the hospital to safety. The fire at the …

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FDA warns against consumption of washed-ashore fishes

 LISTEN   6 HOURS AGO   1 The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has warned the public against consuming any unwholesome following reports that the fish washed ashore at the Osu Castle beach may have been sent to various markets. According to the Authority, it has also begun laboratory investigations to ascertain whether such …

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‘April Fool’s Day’ pranks can cause cardiac arrest – Psychologist

The Vice President of Ghana Psychology Association, Reverend Albright Banibensu, has cautioned against negative pranks as they can cause cardiac arrests. “Persons with underlying anxiety disorders can have cardiac arrest out of pranks so we have to be careful with this April fool’s pranks,” he told the Ghana News Agency …

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Another Ghanaian nurse goes missing

It’s every mother’s worst nightmare as Madam Angela Asare faces the fear of having lost her daughter, Vera Asamoah, a Ghanaian nurse stationed in the nation’s capital Accra. Angela, who is also a nurse at the Asesewa Government Hospital in the Eastern Region recounts how her daughter left her apartment …

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Fire guts NDC’s Dr. Thomas Anabah’s Habana Hospital in Tamale

  A private hospital belonging to a former Medical Director of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Dr Thomas W Anabah has been gutted by fire. The cause of the fire at Habana Hospital in Tamale on Monday, March 29, 2021, is not immediately known but some medical equipment estimated at …

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Pollution shrinking human penises, warns scientist

Penises are shrinking and genitals becoming malformed because of pollution, an environmental scientist has warned in a new book detailing the challenges facing human reproduction. Dr Shanna Swan writes that humanity is facing an “existential crisis” in fertility rates as a result of phthalates, a chemical used when manufacturing plastics …

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Ghana Health Service probes stealing and selling of COVID-19 vaccine

The Ghana Health Service has launched an administrative inquiry into the stealing and selling of COVID-19 vaccine by some staff of the service. Stephen Dzisenu, a 37-year-old Disease Control Officer of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital is in the grips of the Greater Accra Police for stealing 36 vials of …

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3 out of 10 children in Ghana are stunted – Deputy Public Health Director

Sixteen percent of children in the Ashanti Region are stunted, the Ashanti Regional Deputy Director for Public Health, Dr Michael Rockson Adjei has said. The Ashanti Regional Deputy Director for Public Health disclosed this at a sensitisation workshop for the media held in Kumasi on Friday, 19 March 2021. The …

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AstraZeneca vaccine is safe; no side effects recorded yet – FDA

The Food and Drugs Authority has assured the Ghanaian public that the AstraZeneca vaccines are safe adding that no side effects have been recorded in Ghana yet. Over 300, 000 Ghanaians have been given the jab after the country took delivery of some 600, 000 doses of the vaccines last …

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National Health Insurance levy increased by 1 percent

As part of measures to help recover Ghana’s economy, government has announced a one percent increment (1%) in the National Health Insurance Levy(NHIL). This is to say that the hitherto 2.5% NHIL charge on goods and services has increased to 3.5%. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Majority Leader in Parliament …

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