Tag Archives: BABIES

  The poor road system in the area has been attributed to the deaths of pregnant women and their unborn babies by the people of Japandu, a rural hamlet that is close to Kuntenanse but lies inside the Bosomefreho District of the Ashanti Region. According to the residents, the bad …

Babies will be issued Ghana Cards at birth in July at various hospitals, the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has announced. He explained that the move follows the completion of the integration of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Ghana Health Service (GHS) and Births and Deaths Registry databases. He disclosed this …

Two babies have died as a result of a power outage at the St Anne’s Hospital which operates under the Catholic Health Directorate in Damango in the Savanna Region. The hospital had its power cut due to a debt amounting to GH¢4 million power debt owed to the Northern Electricity …

Health officials at the Tema Manhean Polyclinic has led the Police to arrest the pastor of the Elohim Life Church International, for keeping an anaemic mother and her newly born babies at the church premises. Mr Joshua Agudah, Assembly member for Dade Agbo Electoral Area in the Tema Metropolitan Assembly, …

Naming a child is considered a very momentous occasion in some parts of the African continent, mainly because a name is an integral part of one’s identity. In some cultures, a name links a child to a specific tribe or family and maybe purposely chosen for the preservation of a …

Parents have been advised to desist from using breast milk to treat eye problems in babies and rather seek professional medical care to ensure their safety. That habit, coupled with the use of herbal preparations for eye treatment, has resulted in children risking visual impairment and other complicated eye injuries, …

Malian nonuplets who were born in Morocco last year have returned to their home country after over a year in the North African country. A BBC Africa LIVE report said the parents and their nine babies arrived at the airport in the capital, Bamako, in the small hours of Tuesday …

A forensic pathologist and Head of KNUST School of Medicine and Dentistry, Dr. Paul Ossei Sampene is concerned about the recorded cases of newborn babies with deformities in mining communities. Speaking to GHOne News, the pathologist observed that illegal mining activities which continue to contaminate food crops and river bodies …

Growing dreadlocks may be inspired by fashion trends or religion if one is a Rastafarian. But, in an oil-rich region of the West African nation of Ghana, some mothers in Cape Three Point deliberately have their babies grow dreadlocks to scare witches that are after their lives or to prevent …

Twenty-five thousand eight hundred (25,800) stillbirth and neonatal deaths have been recorded in Ghana in the last three years. Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, the University of Ghana, Dr. Alexander Manu revealed this during a presentation on “Assessment of Newborn Care in Ghana”, at the 10th Annual …